1: Sikh leader grovels or doodles! (7)

4: Charged a couple of hundred, getting exploited (7)

6: Spread of disease nearly borne by horse (9)

7: Seaport of royal Tamerlane? (5)

9: We would embrace tightly in marriage (7)

11: Polygraph unexpectedly traps vandal (3)

14: Approaches first of nine pieces of corn (5)

16: Non-clerical song (3)

17: Take Chair in university (3)

18: Equips for attacks (4)

19: Sounds like a wolf on the coast (3)

20: Hold onto string and file (5)

21: Small piece of fish (3)

22: Turn to promotion on clothing (7)

23: Heavenly visitor to arrive on time (5)

25: Woman losing head after another fall (9)

27: Crazy macabre American authors outside making perfumed hair applications (7)

28: I fall over myself to get a bad reputation (3,4)

1: In all, just a little peak. (3)

2: Excitedly saw open arms (7)

3: Follow south for lecture (5)

4: Author of Breathe Out, Lay Out, Going Out? (4,5)

5: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)

8: Places and composition? (9)

9: Great clamour in part of building with many turns. (7)

10: Prig had ma conceal midriff (9)

12: Anyway - no! (3)

13: A month's work for a denizen of the deep (7)

15: Crushed bones, say, as source of sauce (4,5)

19: Tender command (3)

20: Duck turning up initially looking like a Walt Disney animated goose (7)

22: Hand calculators, starting as backups, add critical information (5)

24: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

26: Sound of river crossing (3)