Across:
8 Lois came out in her underwear ! (8)
9 A way of working with second degree graduate and protozoan (6)
10 Robot's curt involvement with a blockage participant (10)
11 Subversive group to love Italian greeting (4)
12 A bugle blown when the caviar producer appears (6)
14 Woman's habit - fish by the lake (8)
15 One might come so in the fall ! (7)
17 He goes on incessantly even when idle (7)
20 The fellow who meant war? (8)
22 Are characters in colour? Look at them again ! (6)
24 Intuitive direction taken to evoke spirit (4)
25 A second second choice (2-8)
27 Works hard at studies (6)
28 Get your grubby mitts on the fleet and hand it on (8)
DOWN:
1 Way to crack a barrel right out and sing? (6)
2 Reportedly lost in fog (4)
3 Adjust a model within a standard unit of measuring (8)
4 Irritate a new pet inside - a tortoise perhaps (7)
5 A diacritic and mother start chattering right on! (6)
6 Pass northern city (10)
7 You get this by the case when the seaman is behind time around four (8)
13 A French rustic, about 50, was beastly (10)
16 Uses rare broadcast to restore confidence (8)
18 Her moans upset him (8)
19 Detailed popular measure (2-5)
21 It's hard going, or in the most part (6)
23 I see he is beastly, yet with great power (6)
26 Horse’s tooth is thus misspelt (4)
SOLUTION TO YESTERDAY’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across: 7 Betel, 8 Naturally, 10 Gillie, 11 Sea-level, 12 Madeline, 13 Ayes, 15 Weather, 17 Hand out, 20 Flee, 22 Bathrobe, 25 Migrants, 26 Buried, 27 Direct tax, 28 Bones.
Down: 1 Decimated, 2 Bell-tent, 3 Parsley, 4 Rutabaga, 5 Gamete, 6 Flies, 9 Kepi, 14 Bumblebee, 16 Eternity, 18 Dark room, 19 Abyssal, 21 Larger, 23 Tube, 24 Vivid.