5a
Flower in front of garden recalled fairy rings
(7)
9a
Suffer side-effects from touching performance
(5)
10a
Get together and manage to admit nothing to judge
(2-7)
11a
Come round with boring requests for regional holidays
(5,5)
12a
Those beginning to scheme against reigning monarch
(4)
14a
Broadcast Queens' vital matches
(11)
18a
Essex town providing staff for plane, maybe
(11)
21a
Test confidence without restraining me
(4)
22a
Taxonomist in mid-life gets posher housing
(10)
25a
Limpet and rocks firmly fixed
(9)
26a
Return of one pound two shillings for ecstasy
(5)
27a
Absolute value is recurrent problem, with board game involved
(7)
28a
Eg Romeo dismissing Juliet's second film sequence
(7)
Down
1d
Clutch them when all looks lost, but avoid the short one!
(6)
2d
State question, enclosing note with answer
(6)
3d
Confectioner's pastries ruined diet, essentially
(10)
4d
Investigate cardinal in Roman Catholic church
(5)
5d
Batsman's innings ended — accidentally fell
(5,4)
6d
Be obliged to work with hands when caught
(4)
7d
Ditties of French boys after one quits series
(8)
8d
Cuts ripe bananas for dessert topping
(3,5)
13d
Bubblier fans running for top prize
(4,6)
15d
Bogeyman in book heading off to trap tardy deer, perhaps
(9)
16d
Euro MP worried about current mass market
(8)
17d
Yet to participate in test without cover
(8)
19d
Mineral found in first two of six limestone caves
(6)
20d
Oblique tip of elaborate stick for game
(6)
23d
Clearing large borders, exposed umbelliferous plant
(5)
24d
Ultimately search each large building
(4)
