Prize cryptic crossword

#9176

Across

1 Hit the wrong notes? Not here (7) 5 Hint of something obscene in time line – fruity stuff between sheets (7) 9 Hour’s seized by fresh type of music journalist (9) 10 Smoke to get high,

leaving ends in vehicle (5) 11 Beat the booze, but not

ecstasy (5) 12 The man’s brooding, inwardly worried, and can’t decide (9) 13 A French conservative online agitator, skilled at resisting government (14) 17 Their goal is to search

ground? (14) 21 Diminutive fixer feeds

workers (4,5) 23 Valuable property like Park Lane and Mayfair? (5) 25 It’s wheeled out of bankruptcy clearance (5) 26 Pen translation of Joshua

1, Latin and English (9) 27 Greedy person hoarding Chinese coin and old German one (7) 28 Cry for alimony? (7)

Down

1 Greek character captured by relatively small monster (8) 2 Channel One producing seamy stuff? (5) 3 Cruel and senseless endlessly suppressing buzz (7) 4 Clumsiness of verbal encouragement to Blair? (9) 5 Directions you take when joining a party? (5) 6 Cheese tart cooked with chicory filling inside (7) 7 It’s toxic, new tech is (9) 8 Poet’s canon includes rousing lines (6) 14 Fattening food followed

by relative growth (9) 15 Perfect shot I hit with

welly (4-5) 16 Ideology holding alternative line relating to climate (8) 18 Reject frightful

banshee (3-4) 19 Explicit image (7) 20 Where clutch goes (partly), big end may well go first (6) 22 First person in France got up in outfit for makeover (5) 24 Hot place between Guinea-Bissau and Namibia (5)