1. Half-naked dancer given corrupt money for the ritual (8)

5. Caress the blow (6)

9. (*) Fifty Indian pals, singularly mad, are actually idiots (5)

10. Feelings but for a hundred symbols (9)

12. Spires built by Tess using a rotten peel (8)

13. Asserts confidently that Java Version 1.5 exhibits brilliantly (5)

14. (*) The way in which diode shrieked (6)

15. Perplexingly, salesman went to date and thinned down (7)

18. A poisonous element can rise, however (7)

20. Listen to rough prostitutes (6)

21. Two accountants make love at last and produce the tree of sweetness (5)

23. The Italian takes nothing to build radar for infrastructural necessity (8)

25. Solitary predator, to the audience, is of Shylock's ilk (4,5)

26. Side-kick needs thousand to make a compound (5)

27. Yiddish leader limps around ingenuously (6)

28. (*) With great gravity, Incas don't stick to necessary evil, after a fashion(8)

1. We hear that to plant is to surrender (4)

2. Act not in altercations, lest it leads to many a narration (9)

3. Colas made with selenium can be diversely composed (13)

4. Led astray in necessity, and so provoked (7)

6. (*) Love area which frees us from you and we shortly (5)

7. Direction squad takes to reach New York district (4,4)

8. (*) Linus doesn't hold on to courtliness when it comes to a woman's undergarment (6)

11. Seize hold of, though fashionable before: it is not quite right (13)

16. Ire vented on axe men angrily makes them reconsider (9)

17. Prospective managers get these taunts! (8)

19. Bodily put vehicle before rising network (6)

20. Show rink leaks from line inside (7)

22. Editor ditches crazy medical demand (5)

24. (*) Corner, doubly unknown, is very appealing (4)