ACROSS
1 Trained rose unfit for purpose (6,1’4)
7 Semi-tragedy of amateur radio operator (3)
9 Distinctive accent of stage yokel (9)
10 Plead uselessly for the downtrodden (5)
11 It provides fir cone, oddly enough (7)
12 English bondman takes cold from a French one (7)
13 In return, loan overdue one week? Not so say the French? (5)
15 Older rice cooked for French revolutionary or Franciscan (9)
17 Badly-selected coins he’ll waste (3-6)
19 French joint in which the staff aren’t doing enough (5)
20 French supplier’s thanks for thanks: it comes adrift (1’3,3)
22 Dapple effect seen when English and French deer are in retreat (7)
24 French sort of judge (5)
25 Touch it, said Lady Bracknell, and the bloom is gone (9)
27 Jupiter, perhaps, comes back in animal form (3)
28 Query at French meeting prompts remark abour state (7,2,2)
DOWN
1 Dubious drink (3)
2 It takes one millimetre, one, to be protected in France (5)
3 Having taken in too much iron in port, first to last (7)
4 Areas where it’s severe in Norfolk town (9)
5 French heading is trite and inaccurate (5)
6 See me cheep discordantly when held up in France (7)
7 Monster into wrong sort of making less neat (9)
8 Unhappy? Be entertaining about the time in France (11)
11 Poor cast confide having been taken off (11)
14 How to become joined-up? (9)
16 Isolate receiver after call (4-5)
18 Chore I’m upset about – it’s epic! (7)
19 One of those alike at night, regardless of colour (4,3)
21 I would take Douglas’s place (5)
23 Land of broken yachts? (5)
26 Liberals always have time (3)
