Across
- 3. Hobbit returns from Mirkwood or Fangorn Forest (5)
- 5. See 23 across
- 7. Vessel from Kenya or Tanzania (5)
- 10. See 19 across
- 11. Mostly suitable family of Jane Austen, writer (1,1,9)
- 14. The German doppelganger concealed weapon (9)
- 15. Needed to make moccasins? (3,4,2,3,8)
- 19. Dogs eat small items of clothing (5,6)
- 20. See 15 across
- 23. Brother hears drug trade is a bit dodgy (6,8)
- 24. Assistant returns flower (4)
- 25. See 17 down
- 26. Abel was in the field? (5,3)
- 28. Abbreviated data set is insufficent but told to work just as hard! (2,8)
Down
- 1. Francis Drake, Thomas Gainsborough, George Wickham, Walter Raleigh, and John Constable, for example, may cause things to disappear (11)
- 2. Mystery about Eli's haunted rope (5,2,3,5)
- 4. See 2 down
- 6. Gangster Ray returns chance item (6)
- 8. Caine got first starring role at last (4)
- 9. Scholarship boy was from Africa (9)
- 12. Come and go by ruse de guerre (6,5)
- 13. Small hotel kept the sheets clean (7)
- 16. Rude like Spock, initially grim and resentful (6)
- 17. Barbecue chopped liver after thermals (4,4,6)
- 18. Moving instruction playbook switched by leading academic institution (2,2,2,3)
- 21. See 12 down
- 22. Frame drug-taking Blue Peter presenter (8)
- 27. Result of butchering dead male animal (9)
