Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

1 European landmark in Paris, dirt cheap to renovate (3, 2, 8)

9 Well-respected place besieged by a rebel, unfortunately (9)

10 Best to dock heading to dwarf planet (5)

11 Very fine total (5)

12 Stuck in rut, a habitual state (4)

13 Sharp dessert (4) 15 Bureaucracy, having shifted communist to the right, came to a point (7)

17 First stage involves a racket (7)

18 Stir as sleep passes (7)

20 Italian dish not bad, regularly seen behind bar (7)

21 Sound of swine in fine houses (4)

22 Dress ripped at top initially, darn it (4)

23 Pair of Manx cats love tropical tree (5)

26 In conference, check rule (5) 27 Clue I get with no working out, making progress slowly and carefully (9)

28 Brief success, cook’s brilliant moment? (5, 2, 3, 3)

DOWN

1 Where rook may go, affecting everyone (6, 3, 5)

2 Police beginning to enter wood (5)

3 Key: use leverage in business (10)

4 English lamb finally entering ring — spring back? (7)

5 Acting as supreme leader in general (7)

6 Father — one after Oscar? (4) 7 Auntie and doctor not half wrong — child’s right! (9)

8 Thug also battered Welshman in old Welsh county (5, 9)

14 Menu set on end of bench covering item for dinner, perhaps (10)

16 Person with complaint, argument that’s nothing special? (9)

19 Lengthen period of confinement (7)

20 Construct one lacking English used (3-4)

24 Primate briefly places church above devil (5)

25 Old South American occupying most extreme parts of Colombia (4)