1: Make money and set out to be serious (7)

5: Penniless meal is fantastic (5)

8: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

9: Too old for love - a woman, for example, rejected (7)

10: Tender command (3)

11: Grant loud colour (3)

12: Birds in white trousers (5)

14: Children nicely holding back secret (5)

16: Word of opposition from a friend of Caesar, J? (7)

18: Mount seen the day before the others (7)

19: Proficient in arithmetic, starting with short division (5)

20: Witticism provided theme (5)

22: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)

23: Fiction position (3)

25: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)

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

27: Peeled, making Pop embarrassed? (5)

28: Medicine was our connection, we hear (7)

1: Unnecessary oath from ex-president I've allowed in (9)

2: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

3: Not here? No, no! (5)

4: Prig had ma conceal midriff (9)

5: Zoom back from the deeps (5)

6: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

7: Bloody bored inside (3)

9: ...or stuffed with the alternative (5)

13: Mend a split state (11)

15: Healer making solemn statement about upcoming writers (9)

17: 'True men' is false (9)

19: Water plants used in informal Gaelic gardens (5)

21: Mrs Schmidt's penny is fake (5)

22: Funny dame getting red (5)

23: Lick up pal (3)

24: In fear of wheat head (3)