Puzzles and Solutions March 2018

Across

• 8 Skin revealed in low-level luminosity (6)
• 9 Secret coteries got broken up (8)
• 10 Nasty child grabe this French lustre shell jewellery (8)
• 11 One wizard’s photos (6)
• 12 Feel sorry for little Reginald? About time! (6)
• 13 Advance publicity for monstrous woman (8)
• 14 Uncomfortable king spent the night under canvas outside (7)
• 16 Tin sled bends and tapers (7)
• 20 Bowlers maybe pay attention to aged members on board (8)
• 23 Ethnic bishop got embroiled in court proceedings (6)
• 25 Eggs or bananas: avarice without end (6)
• 26 Iron alternative brought back to Sheffield, maybe to gain strength (8)
• 27 Engineer’s frenzied running around city hospital (8)
• 28 Uncapped beacons cast over the seas (6)

Down

• 1 Agreed to be all ears in this place for the audience (4,4)
• 2 One who carves up extraordinary relics (6)
• 3 I’ve heard French man permitted food using eggs (8)
• 4 Paperwork resulting from Spooner’s sex attack on one of the Kennedys (3,4)
• 5 Colorado minorities partly observed playing piece (6)
• 6 Made good couple rush around (8)
• 7 Fat cat jumped onto Her Majesty’s reptiles (6)
• 15 Power surrounds dreadful din at the witching hour (8)
• 17 Tear in or cut in front (8)
• 18 Testing bygone stagecraft (8)
• 19 Step over arbiter’s introduction (7)
• 21 Lacquer lifted the Parisian coiffure (6)
• 22 Wild terrain: I quit rambling (6)
• 24 Longed to get married in husband’s absence (6)