Across
1
Section of Hawkwind EP thrills thoroughly (2,5)
5
Gave energy to captive soldier, English revolutionary (7)
9
Musical instrument, or instruction for how to play it (5)
10
E.g. Picaroon in terrible dump? Yes and no (9)
11
Where solar panels are installed for free (2,3,5)
12
Starts to plan attack with knight, or other chess piece (4)
14
Big shop possibly making Starmer puke (11)
18
City is walling off street for financiers etc.? (11)
21
Guardian compilers and our boss getting exploited (4)
22
Prisoner provoked people on-line, getting restrained (10)
25
Wren perhaps in the Arctic, oddly (9)
26
Golf, then hotel, then this part of Asia (5)
27
Stitches up parent’s pants (7)
28
Withdrew sappers in need of a rest (7)
Down
1
Make better, mostly unscripted performance (6)
2
Shortage of diamonds on ground (6)
3
Pity person’s corrupt tendency (10)
4
Animal that wades in cool Italian river (5)
5
Print media admitting certain stresses (9)
6
Broad gets a run in cricket (4)
7
Royal Artillery battalion ultimately fires rifles (8)
8
Command party friend hosts at home (8)
13
Wind player with nothing on, caught by strings player (10)
15
Jumpers turned up by Leicester’s number one fans (9)
16
Account by clergyman is error-free (8)
17
Stimulating drug reduced – a kind of blow (8)
19
Aircraft heads for Greece’s largest island, doing extra refuelling (6)
20
English King Lear who wrote nonsense (6)
23
Teacher’s disapproving word over losing heart (5)
24
City with famous tower – Paris strangely not right (4)