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Across
- 7. Chest smell - so masculine (5)
- 8. Manoeuvre made by small-time rogue to get a jewel (9)
- 10. Award finest woman with Oscar (6)
- 11. Waffle cake - flipping good to eat it (6,2)
- 12. Realised I'm entitled to keep the deposit (8)
- 13. Pay back trader only 50% in time (6)
- 14. Run straight - make an impression (7)
- 16. Around November, intended to get back (7)
- 20. One'll shoot soldiers after swinging mace (6)
- 23. I note surface is worthy of being copied (8)
- 25. Operation - a marshal didn't carry one out (8)
- 26. Pot? Say 'no' (3,3)
- 27. A flower I put on rug is bound to give a pleasant smell (9)
- 28. Upright piano fit inside for musician (5)
Down
- 1. Sound that's let out after mysterious echo (8)
- 2. In court, running ritual with regret (8)
- 3. Repeat it time after time, echo (7)
- 4. City in India and Bahrain perhaps put under pressure (8)
- 5. Want a maiden that's beautiful on the outside (6)
- 6. Take plenty of time to be considered a member (6)
- 9. What we eat that's sweet (4)
- 15. Toast made is to two-wheelers (8)
- 17. Butcher boar, with it, at slaughterhouse (8)
- 18. Biased column our journalist's written ... (8)
- 19. ... its news had to be redrafted for The Observer (7)
- 21. They help those attacking without leader (6)
- 22. Imagined flying without wings to be a problem (6)
- 24. Figure obtained through business in banks (4)