Super Cryptic Clues

Across

1. Destroy, maliciously, one shoe at a time (8)

5. Was meagre with the water left (6)

10. The first lay-outs! (7,8)

11. Do they snub the ships that hail them? (7)

12. Manage to get above, to look at (7)

13. Suspect the vapour does have a reddish stain (8)

15. Sounds like ‘parasites’ (5)

18. Just scare the fellow first (5)

20. Making fun of the boss returning on horseback (8)

23. Praised for running amok? There’s no hope! (7)

25. Take place at work (7)

26. Not acute anxiety about? (5,10)

27. Failing to enter a misdemeanour in the record (6)

28. Humiliated by being relegated? (8)

Down

1. A lash of artificial hair (6)

2. Bring the adjusted list in, furious (9)

3. The spear goes clear through the canvas (7) 4. The one with legs asprawl on the outside is a farmer (5)

6. You don’t have to pay for it before it’s dispatched (7)

7. Fights for better terms for the workers (5)

8. Outside and inside writes ‘Dole’ (8)

9. The late songwriter was a businessman (8)

14. Hold up the liner due to sail (8)

16. Anxious to be involved (9)

17. I drop off the girl with the big spender (8)

19. As part of the deal, give one an advertisement in interchange (5,2)

21. Standing, when abused, to make a speech (7)

22. Let get two points in front (6)

24. In the waters are a number of swimmers (5)

25. Be contrite about the crack-up of the reprobate (5)