Across
1 Proverbially, one who was spared the rod? (6, 5) SPOILT CHILD
9 Lured to cite characters in conclusion (7) ENTICED
10 What V stands for in the high-speed train TGV (7) VITESSE
11 Couple of learners about to copy jacket flap (5) LAPEL
12 Close company (9) NEIGHBOUR
13 Direction to healthy, large person (5) WHALE
15 Applicable to military formation that once he led craftily (9) ECHELONED
18 Ruler gets cart back to stay put (9) YARDSTICK
21 Setback to back-street cricket matches (5) TESTS
22 A natty customer may still look for this kind of bargain (4-5) DIRT-CHEAP
24 I laze around Professor Higgins’s pupil (5) ELIZA
26 Industrialist gets fellow to iron crisp fabric (7) TAFFETA
27 Gathered as a group of fliers did (7) FLOCKED
28 Do what a Kamal or Rajini might do (4,3,4) PLAY THE LEAD
Down
1 How a thief may get into the joint he cased? (5,1,3) STEAL A WAY
2 Kept in cask, readily available (2,3) ON TAP
3 Newspaper section from where you choose your pub? Not exactly! (5,4) LOCAL NEWS
4 Boorish fellow therefore does not start to provide voice modulation (7) CADENCE
5 In the street audibly denounce (7) INVEIGH
6 Abandon and land in the sea (5) DITCH
7 Amazes fool by swallowing rancid donut (8) ASTOUNDS
8 Expensive letter opener? (4) DEAR
14 Make known skill pertaining to glider, perhaps (8) AIRCRAFT
16 Set fire to Chief without notice, getting any light (9) LITHESOME
17 Separated, moreover, in bed, after most of the team rose (9) DISBANDED
19 Some like banana flowers in artful arrangement (7) IKEBANA
20 Maintained well, as one might be with proper diet and exercise (4,3) KEPT FIT
22 While writing, they finish some letters! (4) DOTS
23 About to look up an unpleasant fellow (5) CREEP
25 Kin unwinds the French linen tape (5) INKLE
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