Crossword 30,442

Across

1 Perks from working in public transport (7)

5 No cheers for film award? Ran off perplexed (7)

9 Difficult rabble not totally extreme (5)

10 Mount mean equine in North America (9)

11 Uncovered part within set not easily obtained (4-6)

12 Rush drink, first of revelry (4) 14 Sherpa travelling with rest to high region (12)

18 Secretly carried off article in bold manner (8,4)

21 Many books in libraries having content cut out (4)

22 Agree to embrace old lover, it leads to complication (10)

25 Turn blue at sea with temperature unstable (9)

26 Study worm that’s completely stripped historic house (5)

27 Advertise those involved in police drama (7)

28 Cut yew and alder neatly piled in sheets (7)

Down

1 Swallowed last of fruit appended to branch (6)

2 Turning brownish, river shows way of the world (6)

3 Racing-car brand adding unknown variable to articles shaped with carbon (10)

4 Delightful meal reduced by one penny (5)

5 City pub about to welcome Musk, say (9)

6 Start to fetch loose fibrous material (4)

7 One trying to hear register with French name coming up (8)

8 Soldiers trapped in circular object alien guarded (8)

13 It seems somewhat cheap, parent lying (10)

15 We may lose after performing really well (9)

16 One criticised taking in old stray (8)

17 Property secured by trade union involved in acts of arson (8)

19 President promoting new Republican organiser (6)

20 Cross empty highway and propose to maintain run (6)

23 Part of bloomer’s soft with delayed rising (5)

24 Boring puppet having nothing replaced by you, we hear (4)