Tuesday 4 August

Across

1 Customized bicycle’s hollow wheel feature (7) 5 Located outside building’s entrance, Ladies sadly put out of action (7) 9/10 Fetches round container with sweets (not drugs) as sacrifices (5,9) 11 A meaningful area of study (9) 12 Use sleight of hand with ace? Capital! (5) 13 Pull it out to eject large bulb (5) 15 Championship register reportedly taken by lead player? (5,4) 18 Vehicle gives way, getting around a river (9) 19 Was an MP your heartless lecher? (5) 21 Organisation is the essence of paradox, famously (5) 23 Reserve: quiet little creature’s novel resting place (9) 25/26 Carpets, top sort, woven for Rugby? (9,5) 27 Casanova gets a new top for chemical solution (7) 28 Disagreeable one having fun touring in China (7)

Down

1 Tabby is sickly – mind the mites (4-3) 2 Communication made meaningless by this climber (9) 3 A lot of figure (5) 4 Foreign cities limiting energy and temperature in vain (9) 5 Fancy backing with fibrous edges for cut flowers (5) 6 How disciplinarians show restraint describing a dress? (9) 7 Stock bar with drink – 1/3 off (5) 8 Net Tennyson carried regularly (7) 14 Blown up – impact spread over northern Brussels (9) 16 Mixed up rotor with BP engine (9) 17 Moving position of horseshoe? (2,3,4) 18 Northwesterner has to rummage around Kent etc (7) 20 Denial of tearful drunk (7) 22 Dispute about queen’s dream interpreter (5) 23 ‘Beer time’s off!’ one snaps (5) 24 Shut your mouth after ejecting hot Italian starter snack? (5)