2: Rode with colleagues and complained about John's return (9)

7: Famous gardens said to move one to speak. (3)

9: Attacking from behind going downhill (9)

10: One who regrets keeping large measuring stick (5)

11: Mild guess: I die reassembling a nasty weapon (6,7)

14: Decrees: 'Limp roses? Off with their heads!' (7)

17: Deep sleep, father recalled, is fitting (7)

18: Deck out detective, putting pants on backwards (5,2)

19: Made certain condemned is guillotined (7)

20: Gradually reduce European Community requisitions for playback devices (4,9)

24: Icy turning, for example, on top (5)

26: Captures openings (9)

27: Anyway - no! (3)

28: Loses ones extraordinary flexibility (9)

1: Hit for designer Vera, reportedly (5)

2: Inept casino confused the issue (4,2,5)

3: Level called for salary increase (5)

4: Loathing for leader leaving platform (5)

5: Part of lower body is slow to make laws (9)

6: Heard songs about milk and cheese and buns? (9)

7: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)

8: Escalating naked conflict (3)

12: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

13: Theologist embraced love's point when medicated. (5)

14: I sent out a little map (5)

15: Play down awkward date's flop (4-5)

16: Batman novel is pure horse ... ! (9)

21: Doll part, that is (5)

22: English novelist is in future a delight (5)

23: Dixie, perhaps, greeting Japanese food (5)

24: Trap with hands? (3)

25: Non-clerical song (3)