Across
1
Ely desperately after pen to house college transport (7)
5
Scotsman broken by onset of injury and hard suffering (7)
9
Musical piece produced by new department’s head in jumper (5)
10
Burn wayward lazy daughter? Wild! (9)
11
Sanctimonious little girl in car plant (10)
14
Winner shouts out ‘There’s no merit in it!’ (12)
18
Admonition, it seems, about breaking into song (12)
21
Mechanical routine giving balls energy (4)
22
Maybe London’s joint originator of written work (10)
25
Dash, it’s rough being an ambitious type! (9)
27
Backing positive, steadfast youth leaders to undertake major journey (7)
28
Level of society needing pluck to restrain a totalitarian leader (7)
Down
1
Lawyers’ bill for drink (6)
2
Tester of prison work finally happy (6)
3
Decoration designed for X? (10)
4
Cast use Queen Ursula’s debut play (5)
5
True! Rambo’s swimming trunks to be seen here (9)
6
One’s fitted in gun carriage (4)
7
Denials about cigar butt being Cuban? (8)
8
No puritan, involving fellow in theft (8)
13
One who works over the shop? (4-6)
15
Book set in US city or miserable, dark state (9)
16
Singular Côte d’Ivoire architectural style – O! is lost; quite a blow (8)
17
Drink associated with railway in recent times (8)
20
Brummie’s refusal to do a turn as the title character (6)
23
Basic construction by American-Africans (5)
24
Joins the performance of Tosca (teen night production) (4,2,2,3,3)