No 14226, Saturday 13 Jul 2024, Pixie Dust

ACROSS

1   Hero primarily wears Maxim's extremely luminous capes (6) SHAWLS {S{Hero}AW}{Lu...uS}

5   Geometric shape usual with a South American weapon (8) PARABOLA {PAR}{A}{BOLA}

9   Standard tirade, it's obvious (8) FLAGRANT {FLAG}{RANT}

10 Peeled open tins to get nuts (6) PECANS {oPEn}{CANS}

11 Handyman assembled robust auto (10) ROUSTABOUT*

12 She is not a hit! (4) MISS [C&DD]

13 Sweet tele models helping to make flipped egg dish (8) OMELETTE [T<=]

16 Fearless, much-loved but left out! (6) DARING DARlING

17 Impression originally found on sea shell, is lasting (6) FOSSIL Acrostic

19 Spooner's lover could be a shooter (8) REVOLVER {REV}{LOVER*}

21 School member is arrested between first of February and end of March (4) FISH {Fe...y}{IS}{m..cH}

22 Cocktail on a deck? (3,3,4) RUM AND COKE {ON+A+DECK}* [RA]

25 Fussy or insanely neat (6) ORNATE {OR}{NEAT*}

26 Fresh, hot and extremely advanced (8) INSOLENT {IN}{SO}{LENT}

27 First of eleven records describing sex to snobs (8) ELITISTS {El...n}{L{IT}ISTS}

28 International organization returns Byzantine coin to a Papal Ambassador (6) NUNCIO {UN<=}{COIN*}

DOWN

2   Ignoring boundaries she yells, "Joe! Howdy?" (5) HELLO {sHe}{yELLs}{jOe}

3   Rewards from SWAG Estimates (5) WAGES [T]

4   Reportedly spots a vacant loft, it can be used for preserving food (3,4) SEA SALT ((~sees)SEAS}{A}{LofT}

5   Spooner exclaims, "Sexy European in depression!" (7) POTHOLE (~hot pole to pothole)

6   Plant covers position, it is rumoured (7) REPUTED {RE{PUT}ED}

7   A cream craftily stolen by brother-in-law (one having two houses) (9) BICAMERAL {A+CREAM}* in {BIL}

8   Fancy church burying crime ages ago (4,5) LONG SINCE {LONG}{SIN}{CE}

14 Tubular contractile fibre from unusually firm, oily top of body (9) MYOFIBRIL {FIRM+OILY+Body}*

15 Bleed after declaring, "Free earth is destroyed!" (4,5) LOSE HEART {LOSE}{EARTH*} (Correction {(~loose)LOSE}{EARTH*} - See comments)

18 The French recipe takes wine from the south, basically stored in pantries (7) LARDERS {LA}{R}{RED<=}St...d}

19 Seminar about relics (7) REMAINS*

20 Raven is only devouring meat (7) VENISON [T]

23 Pass working organ (5) COLON {COL}{ON}

24 Jack in trouble, ignoring Charlie's symbolic form of communication from the east (5) KANJI {JAcK+IN}*

Reference List

Maxim = SAW, Left = L, Hot = IN, Sex = IT, Church = CE, The in French = LA, Recipe = R, Pass = COL, Charlie = C