Times Cryptic #27429

2019-08-14

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Across

1a

Drew up school notice about bible studies (8)

6a

Queen's stalker's quip retracted? About time! (6)

9a

Shower that's painful in delicate extremities (6)

10a

Canal maybe, wide, Wear and Tay somehow combined (8)

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11a

Woman briefly recalled what may be top of volcano (4)

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12a

Instruction to butcher to be dismissed (3,3,4)

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14a

Warning sign on entrance: "No English here" (3,5)

16a

A very old wife's state (4)

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18a

Architect's engineers blocking adversaries at bridge (4)

19a

Add zip to green pants in special exhibit initially (8)

21a

Their lunch is wild and abandoned? (2,3,5)

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22a

Peter has a following in the home counties (4)

24a

State capital almost calm during brief salute (8)

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26a

Handy American juice promoting energy (6)

27a

Bug transmitters in trustee's banks (6)

28a

Colouring or baking agent lacking in a filling pudding (8)

Down

2d

Really old oak trees survive principallyon these (5)

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3d

Ready meal needed batter, as Spooner might have said? (6,5)

4d

Again bring in fruit, no good at first (2-6)

5d

Where local sports fans head? Absolutely (4,2,3,6)

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6d

Put out your old clothes and the rest (6)

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7d

Pollute nearly all the planet (3)

8d

A paper turns up containing a device that's similar (9)

13d

Nick record fee on these deviously (6,5)

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15d

Bound over to accept old copy that's inaccurate (9)

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17d

Shed many layers there (8)

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20d

Pull a couple of lines on river (6)

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23d

Mess up surface of front edge of sail (5)

25d

Expose yogurts, ignoring the odd bits (3)