Across

1 Vaulting? No, walking after losing face! (7)

5 Use some complex pendulums (6)

9 Flag doctor out in a hospital department (5)

10 Decide to stop Pit (9)

11 Honourably discharged Emir, tie having snapped (7)

12 Publicity by the girl about old gland (7)

13 Ray has replaced foot (5)

14 Effecting a kind of severe punishment (9)

16 Apprehensively crushes velours in New York (9)

19 Two companies produce a drink (5)

21 Uneasy mania about Information Bureau in an African country (7)

23 Digression from a brown guy (7)

24 Became a sailor (4,2,3)

25 The hump in some bridges (5)

26 Poke your nose in mix-up with a slight alteration (6)

27 Obtains or makes safe (7)

Down

1 In which case the letter you sent will bounce (7,7)

2 Actor-politician real annoyed about disease (7)

3 I am the type to make an impression (7)

4 It comes ahead of cleanliness, proverbially (9)

5 In addition to one of the crowd (5)

6 Upstart gives standard location no finishing touch (7)

7 Man from Kerala gets sash somewhere in Kenya (7)

8 She has a prominent part to play (7,7)

15 Mummies' nationalities? (9)

17 A novel language (7)

18 Novel editor, carrying book, went round (7)

19 This may go with con-, ego- or geo-(7)

20 Somehow reach around the cleric for cheese (7)

22 Religious passage - a blend of lies (5)

Across

1 Easygoing description of `dial'? (4-4)
5 Indifference to expectorated matter (6)
9 Overspread U.F. fuses inextricably (7)
10 Bear sort of corona round Chandra's head (7)
11 Char civil as well as honourable (9)
12 Injunction about southern joint (5)
13 Spoil, we hear, a musical instrument (4)
14 World leaders tightfisted and ruthless (9)
17 Support ethic propounded by visionary (9)
19 Disappointment over Oriental guy (4)
23 Conceal or report a news story (5)
24 Girl gives little weight to the right broadcaster (9)
25 Fan to choose to be in the river (7)

26 Raincoat, for example, to last longer (7)

27 A student has a chaotic duel to cite (6)

28 Niece, men reassembling with distinction (8)
Down
1 If a passenger doesn't respond to this, he will become a "no show" (4,4)
2 Wreak punishment, perhaps (7)
3 Cruel Shakespearean character leaves you and me to the young boy (6)
4 Trading event that should make room for new stock (9,4)
6 Literary drudgery for publishers (4-4)
7 Note proposal for some mental suffering (7)
8 Very little time (6)
10 Where the host will meet the guests (9,4)
15 Trip is reorganised; the journalist is zippy (8)
16 Restorer, convulsed, bent backwards (8)
18 Bringing again an evangelistic event (7)
20 Relative the worker almost soiled (7)
21 An accountant to raise help in former French colony in Canada (6)
22 It may be pushed with electrifying effect (6)