Times Cryptic #28320

2022-06-18

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Across

1a

What's made for cleaner alternative stand-up? (7)

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5a

One of several in ring who shows appreciation (7)

9a

Releasing confidences about a former serviceman saying goodbye (5-6)

10a

Spinach is to fall in value (3)

11a

Receive outside request for great seal? (6)

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12a

Note where people dance and what they might eat (8)

14a

Avoid including 500 fellows in one group promotion (13)

17a

An actual user's revised reason for death? (7,6)

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21a

Wickedness I left behind at home, years later (8)

23a

Suggestion about wife's pain (6)

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25a

Support garment (3)

26a

A lot of cheeky hacking going on (11)

27a

Hearing going wrong when one's out in wind (7)

28a

Possibly impure advance in the sack (7)

Down

1d

Bait worm put in river in overwhelming number (6)

2d

City trumpeter, perhaps, given great deal (7)

3d

One making a pickle of things before connecting computer? (9)

4d

Cow pat? (4)

5d

Tending to fancy Yank unclothedmostly cool about that (10)

6d

Jargon uncovered over time? (5)

7d

Attendant seen around a steamship voyage (7)

8d

Control Greek character with pistol in rising (8)

13d

Succeeding in court case with three parties (10)

15d

Another place where eels are swimming (9)

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16d

American battle against tea that's thrown over? (8)

18d

Muscle aches regularly introduced by stumbles (7)

19d

One that sings in prison after a year (7)

20d

Forced into space with limit on payload, ultimately (6)

22d

Stimulant drugwhat one's on when poor, mostly (5)

24d

Smash arises when ignoring area limit for road (4)