Across
1
Cursed setter has been sacked? (7)
9
Line of text, one penned by hand (5)
10
Orange etc, coloured ornament (5,4)
11
Love with sentimental parts melts away in amorous glance (3-3,4)
12
Developing bug, a youngster recovered (4)
14
Awful noise, rear of car in bump, say? (11)
18
Workers choose time to stick on wings of honey bees, say (11)
21
Old European capital’s forgotten in Russian city (4)
22
Trumped-up ideas he fed to right-wingers behind the very same crime (10,8)
25
Therein I associate first (9)
26
I stand on capital in Rome, passing Tuscany originally? (5)
27
Clues where vernacular is reversed (7)
28
Field where ring found by English king having lost one (7)
Down
1
Fix something herbal – how much of that? (6)
2
Cambridge institution let girl go, once trained (6,7)
3
Removing cargo, and I stumbled in where it’s easy to fall? (10)
4
Odds slashed in bet as golfer, result of chipping in, perhaps? (5)
5
Someone offering accompaniment – with soloist’s ‘Tea for Two’? (9)
6
Vegetable shiny, top rubbed off (4)
7
Articulate what requires translation in note left out (8)
8
High up, European victory secured (8)
13
Panglossian contract is sealed by it, I see (10)
15
Tragedian chooses half of play for adaptation (9)
17
Make notes about crush, divine (8)
19
Foreign character, meat certainly for Putin (6)
20
Cross near top of hill erected, clear below (6)
23
For instance, very green light (3-2)
24
Princess, vain, in storming off? (4)