Cryptic crossword

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)