5  Sleep around in empty search for brotherly love (7)

 9  Ideal shape (5)

10 Speed - gripping saga about large ape (9)

11 Where even being ditched can be fixed (10)

12 Clot leads to trouble with intestinal tract (4)

14 Coming soon - sensation involving a beautiful singer (11)

18 Tangled parts ENT nurses managed to get clear (11)

21 Drop in centre's volunteers shift table (4)

22 Deciding to fool around, bad back restricts us (10)

25 Borrow money without interest? (9)

26 A Society Times cover - 'Duke's Latest Mouthful!' (5)

27 Helps to run bible classes with talks about… (7)

28 …grave yard abandoned, ten years after refurbishment (7)

 1  Stuffed sheep's heads from Middle Eastern delicatessen (6)

 2  Latest song on the radio getting maximum exposure? (6)

 3  Against the odds, Princesses gets an Oscar before Badlands (10)

 4  Words in the air, insensitively put by rich hosts (5)

 5  Something smoked - a draw or a bit of gear (6,3)

 6  It's based on a quick fix (4)

 7  Marshal Wade - a hero with no love for the Crown? (8)

 8  'Appealing to a higher level' - phrase that lifer has half forgotten? (8)

13 Back put out, due to parcel lorry having rear ended coach (10)

15 Attractive girl stripped inside a changing room - just inside (9)

16 Hungry and very intense looking guards (8)

17 A little bit 10, but not completely mad (8)

19 Sit up and beg for something to absorb the blow? (6)

20 Half off everything in fire sale - don't give quarter! (6)

23 Gets a coronary, climbing walls in class (5)

24 Legendary warrior's leader drops 2 down weapons (4)