November Puzzles and Solutions

Across

• 1 Renounces drink about one second before beginning of Sabbath (7)
• 5 Long and weary work outside (7)
• 9 Ruin the planet? Almost! (3)
• 10 Like a palimpsest packed with purple prose? (11)
• 11 Rags tattered, perhaps sewn without initial hemming (10)
• 12 Man in South Africa went back for weapons (4)
• 14 Silly thing arbiters can’t reform (12)
• 18 Painting, to me, involved natural colour (12)
• 21 You could swear one loathes not taking sides! (4)
• 22 Tweaked to scan only two notes (10)
• 25 Dissipated men repeat it incoherently (11)
• 26 U-boat, for instance, brought back as transport... (3)
• 27 ...right after airmen scrapped with sailor (7)
• 28 Seed produced from one’s by a mutation (7)

Down

• 1 Doctor Doom in a mask (6)
• 2 Wily little creature finally lured... (6)
• 3 ...with precooked mince - it mostly eats grubs (10)
• 4 They follow quietly, & keep heading out (5)
• 5 Gaudiest Twilight actor was initially most dull (9)
• 6 Leading data scientists hosting artificial intelligence platform (4)
• 7 Tree holding but blown about in sudden eruption (8)
• 8 One bit changed in prison ballad (8)
• 13 Best you all reacted positively (10)
• 15 Pot, other earthenware kept astern (2,3,4)
• 16 Saying I’m sharp, curiously, admits nothing (8)
• 17 Revolutionary page with oath torn in the middle (8)
• 19 Cop, felon going steady! (6)
• 20 No team backing up inventor (6)
• 23 Hands out cards for discounts (5)
• 24 “Topless girls!” sign (4)