1: Why blood is thicker than water? (8,7)

6: Cook small fish. (3)

7: Unprepared, a little gerbil darted the wrong way (2-3)

9: Ran into a section of the time-table (3)

11: Language - one with a Latin derivation (7)

14: Poles suffer internally - they're hard (5)

15: Oliver, and not Thomas, Hardy's monogram (5)

16: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

18: Escalating naked conflict (3)

20: Getting old drink in silver container (5)

23: Fancies and gets hard around (5)

24: The song of Homer's charmer (7)

25: Odds of niece being born (3)

26: Cathy's new boat (5)

27: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

28: Author gets users to order book (6,9)

1: Lawless brute having fun with fair play (7)

2: Non-clerical song (3)

3: A date in February: good time for a massacre? (10,3)

4: Explosive device held by one failed candidate (7)

5: Moscow politician revolting in style (7)

8: Shifting financial fortunes cause industry revolution (8,5)

10: Taste test (5)

12: Song is a gas (3)

13: Equips for attacks (4)

17: Coral Sea, perhaps, without a fish (7)

18: Knew a radical in stir (5)

19: Particular esteem (7)

20: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

21: A representative may be a scamp (3)

22: The basis of coffee remainders (7)

27: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)