CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: NO. 28,785

Across

1 Place to hang hospital garment? (8) 5 Reversible raincoats to take to the cleaners (4)

9 Bar runner from club with pain needing treatment (8) 10 Drive to find area next to concert hall maybe (6)

11 Very loud penetrating poet is sadly on the wrong track … (3-5) 12 … hence, having no beginning or end, poem causes scramble (6)

14 Severe forecast – ring entrepreneurs for clothing (10) 18 One relays creepy messages of courses in Paris and Berlin by management (5,5)

22 Drive home’s ending? (6) 23 Beg surgeon for facelift, having caught cold (8) 24 Bothered to take time for seconds, resulting in round figure (6)

25 Villain receiving old-fashioned look after page’s introduction (8) 26 Animal pelt (4)

27 Risky material, First Love penned by idiot (8)

Down

2 After hesitation, turned up nude, getting slap in the face (6)

3 Fruit is planted amid downpour (6)

4 Fine meadow or riverside, perhaps, for Mole! (6,4)

6 Binding agreement mysterious group’s used to crush worker (8)

7 Staffing that’s opposed by feminists? (8)

8 Light meal the French originally shelled out for (8)

9 Rugby player that’s employed in theatre (4)

13 Makes tracks in advance of drunken rep’s order to come round clubs (10)

15 Row of homes? (8) 16 Food supplement put team on course (4,4)

17 Butcher cutting son causes hysterics? (8)

19 Club’s number one in part of India – tall story! (6)

20 Man whose limit may be one across and two down? (6)

21 Present that bloke goes on about (4)