1: Cut corners and omit taking minutes (5)
4: Brief inclination to include likely candidates (5,4)
9: Publish and be exhausted (4,3)
10: Feminine articles put in case (7)
11: Uncouth chaps met Engel under stress. (4,9)
12: Interprets, for the audience, the woodwinds (5)
14: Tipsy couple's getting intimate (5, 2)
16: A month's work for a denizen of the deep (7)
18: Scandinavian boatmen or sea-faring characters (5)
20: Unfortunate rot in republic is everlasting (13)
24: Warned of related crackpot (7)
25: Albatross, seals cluster here! (4,3)
27: Simple addition in cult film (4,5)
28: Stir outspoken 3-down resident, usually (5)