Across

1 Going on and on to no purpose (7) []

5 Contract to construct a viaduct (7) []

9 Seclude with a fence (7) []

10 Encyclopaedist ripped up after having done the job (7) []

11 Fact of matter is possibly that slim girl is having a problem (5) []

12 A course set at intervals? (9) []

13 I get hours of variety that is blameless (9) []

15 Breaks up camp in revolt (5) []

16 A churchman takes in diamond ornamented with a chequered pattern (5) []

18 Coppers getting to the admonishment (9) []

21 Tries anew to fit into food tins and coffee tins (9) []

24 Company has right to go in quarter for a reckoning (5) []

25 Covers up when you look (7) []

26 Elegant American with Mexcian ancestry (7) []

27 Took up permanent abode and so became stable (7) []

28 Old Englishman to get Oriental interpretation of text (7) []

Down

1 Eastern church reader who puts down his cross (7) []

2 Adornment last month over a sovereign (7) []

3 Do a gentle movement that had been extended (9) []

4 Very little in starting price — should clean up (5) []

5 Receiver of note maybe (9) []

6 Girl takes a ride around a hill range (5) []

7 Freshwater diving birds catch small American fishes (7) []

8 Praises highly, the old lost scholar (7) []

14 The downtrodden masses urged to go to work (9) []

15 Going back, reorganised services without point (9) []

16 The devil of an author? (7) []

17 Quite happy to deceive over accommodation (7) []

19 Cut off an admission of tardiness (7) []

20 Angered about something delivered by hand (7) []

22 Need expert knowledge for an accomplishment (5) []

23 Certain about large number having Ecuador money (5) []