Times Cryptic #28336

2022-07-07

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Across

1a

Old president in uniform following ceremony I perform (8)

6a

Preserve item, often mechanical, a source of drama (6)

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9a

Maybe Swede's boss informally embracing celebrity, mostly (6)

10a

Unusual label on jacket accompanying a cloak (8)

11a

Love last traces of jazz age ever so (4)

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12a

Large amounts of alcoholold fineintroduced to US domestic market (5,2,3)

14a

Spectator originally keen on following race meets (4,4)

16a

A sign November is turning to December time (4)

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18a

Mountain republic's more westerly one excavated for uranium (4)

19a

Briefly take old vessel back round a volcanic island (8)

21a

Cuckoo with intention of feeding? (3,2,5)

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22a

Old version of my commercialas before (4)

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24a

What boy working with monk after hours produces? (8)

26a

Grant airworthiness certificate perhaps, and send out (3,3)

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27a

World body backed agreement to hold vote without it (6)

28a

Young creature dying after taking lion's head for its tail! (8)

Down

2d

Bomb may not be if it has this (2,3)

3d

The blessed Guardian's not partisan, somehow! (6,5)

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4d

Sharing out reward, ultimately two pairs in contention? (8)

5d

Inside out? Stick with solution (5,4,3,3)

6d

Filling in cheque, as you've not settled? (6)

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7d

Maybe poverty's rise in the East End (3)

8d

Don cape before a dance, leading lady love (9)

13d

Pay for courses, with books in principle (11)

15d

S American revolutionary: more than that, a university teacher (9)

17d

Place to go after ascending, with endless special food? (8)

20d

Woman's who's fallencase of fuel leaking? (6)

23d

Spent, having nothing else to pay? (3-2)

25d

Called before match not being broadcast (3)

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