CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: NO. 28,243

Across 1 Undercover family needs it to change (11) 9 Lawyer meeting patient, maybe a carrier (9) 10 Material convinced on the radio (5) 11 Perjurer ringing once, oddly not involved in a row (6) 12 Good! Fish, fish and fish (8) 13 Newspaper article about length for such a coat (6) 15 Left dance drunk after graduate fair (8) 18 Element speaking languages before 10 (8) 19 Make up name to be assumed by popular doctor (6) 21 Extend agreement to cover results over target range, initially (8) 23 Tipsy chef ’s hidden spirit (6) 26 Principle demonstrated by the empty grid (5) 27 Lease revoked in disturbed client’s mind (9) 28 Rotten practice with company of French driver’s rules (7,4) Down 1 Person at last getting a pie (7) 2 Co-ordinate a policy broadcast (5)

3 Costs incurred by scuffle during trades (9)

4 Creature from the deep lake (4)

5 Church elite must support one dairy product (3,5)

6 Try, seeing enemies losing heart, perhaps (5)

7 Promised disheartened pal, getting nicked (7)

8 Rather inferior cider some brewed with no end of apples (8)

14 Muzzle pug – not in buckles (8)

16 Relative’s friend is an easy target for criticism (4,5)

17 Attractive, feminine and making a deep impression (8)

18 Dump mainly serious adviser on course (7)

20 Settler settling for support under table (7)

22 Gag miserable specimen with no wife (5)

24 Belief system encountered in sacred orders (5)

25 Cook’s stitch in time? No – the other way round! (4)