Across

1) Taint Rene, purify for amusement. (9)
6) Small hair style for a gamete. (5)
9) Branches- instill a little New in them and you’d get a fresh season. (5)
10) Obviously the slave is adept at noticing things. (9)
11) Not the crazy types. (4, 6)
12) Boat Grounded with hesitation, due to floating ice. (4)
14) Is queen confused about the horses? (7)
15) This got turned what eyes may be used for. (2, 5)
17) Lower cast people from the middle east considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians(7
19) So you laze in a different way and become full of life. (7)
20) To play in the water with a small lump of direction. (4)
22) Take advantage to use THIS case. (10)
25) Again limb consumed Sulphur and moves to a lower division. (9)
26) The poet got stumped at the end of the 50 over match. (5)
27) Small photo in the east, that’s the variety of life. (5)
28) First lady’s fall, we hear and overhear. (9)

Down

1) Becomes comfortable in the oriental seas? (5)
2) Taunt the Windies captain terribly about a hairy critter. (9)
3) Archie’s friend goes mad we hear, like a military unit. (10)
4) One climbs the sums. (7)
5) Not applicable, the odour of something that is beginning to exist. (7)
6) Rise anew as a respected man. (4)
7) Modern times in a girl? Escape that! (4)
8) Reduces the effect of a foreign university and one entrance test at the pole. (9)
13) These carry up tumbling crates also. (10)
14) As steward fell in a particular direction. (9)
16) One who praises. (9)
18) Initiate the French and shock! (7)
19) Legendary sniper has hollow alphabets & a jacket in the opposite way. (7)
21) Held one mixed up in the capital. (5)
23) Put Assistant Engineer the wrong way and consume. (3,2)
24) Gawk at the good leg ring. (4)