CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS
1 Angry bears move with a knocking sound and intimidate with a show of force.

(5-6)
9 Poor actor follows Rex to different town (9)
10 Stop motorists around the top of Vauxhall Street (5)
11 Very small pit contains uranium and a bit of tin (6)
12 He has ten ruined by pagans (8)
13 Cowardly to shout at old women (6)
15 Put chessman in a corner perhaps (3,5)
18 Having high moral principles I object to new peers (8)
19 Measurement system's timer designed by Charles I (6)
21 Girl from ancient Greece finds answer in city (8)
23 Knight's silver turned up on wagon (6)
26 Doctor meets one lazy person (5)
27 Embarrassed by incompetent soldier's stance (3,2,4)
28 Extremely rude during explosive game in sports arena (5,6)


DOWN
1 Cider party emptied after disorderly struggle (7)
2 Don't declare a stick (5)
3 Conductor to choose and stick with Elgar at first (9)
4 Long for each change (4)
5 Adjusted by office worker before the 1st of December (8)
6 Absolutely correct to demand and obtain (5)
7 Mother to pose upside down in front of south eastern artist (7)
8 Film about exercise leads to alarm (4,4)
14 Dog from somewhere in Canada (8)
16 A writer of inferior verse and terrible operettas (9)
17 Woman from Belgium ate cooked cereal (8)
18 Dean's drunk in French part of London (7)
20 Give up college once Ed returns (7)
22 Spy found in hospital department carrying a grand (5)
24 A minor grant (5)
25 Chapter on destiny of a fool (4)