1: Help out my parched elephant, for example (9)

6: Jump Begin (5)

9: Stateside bananas: most like a rock (9)

10: Minor actor employed in sex trade (5)

11: Messages transmitted about a mile (1-4)

12: 'Gigolo, Inc.' lothario sporting primitive G-string (9)

14: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

17: Drawing, for example, a bit of a cartoon (3)

19: One may be a very long time (3)

20: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

21: Large strumpets turned a trick? (9)

22: True side (5)

23: At one time, gobbling up two tablespoons (5)

24: Giant fish, note, approaches Italian city (not capital) (9)

27: Whip stuff with energy (5)

28: Fifty are returning after the last hemp mixture has a short life cycle (9)

1: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

2: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

3: Sing gist of laudatory ode loudly (5)

4: Girl mostly into turning inside out - it's never ending! (11)

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

6: Little Digger pens sailboat drawing sheets (6,3)

7: Aunt Toras crazy but shell go a long way (9)

8: Discipline the heartless and agonize endlessly (5)

11: Belated top-and-tailing to gladden one's heart (5)

13: Beware of these they show the funny side of the month! (4,2,5)

15: Taking the future into consideration, Chaney acquires farmstead (4-5)

16: Rita Mears breaks wind near a plane (9)

18: Tart returns, filled with energy, to provide some special entertainment (5)

21: Stick mostly around center of group, impassive (5)

22: Lear tangled with leader of Middle Kingdom (5)

24: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)

25: Start reducing salt? (3)

26: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)