| Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | RECAP | |
| Top performer in public relations returned review (5) | (ACE inside PR) reversed | |
| 4 | DEPOSITOR | |
| Editor mistaken about pressure applied to overseas investment banker (9) | Anagram of EDITOR outside (P + OS) | |
| 9 | TALLIED | |
| Opportunist finally joined as agreed (7) | opportunis(T) + ALLIED | |
| 10 | TASTERS | |
| People who sample spuds cut with spades (7) | TATERS outside S | |
| 11 | AT THE SAME TIME | |
| Still distributed steam heat with discharge flowing back (2,3,4,4) | Anagram of STEAM HEAT + (EMIT reversed) | |
| 14 | LOOP | |
| Ring fund in recession (4) | POOL reversed | |
| 15 | INSISTENT | |
| One of the family, bound by plan, is persevering (9) | SIS inside INTENT | |
| 18 | STAYING ON | |
| Guy with leave, accommodated by inn, is going nowhere (7,2) | STAY + (GO inside INN) | |
| 19 | JUJU | |
| Charm – it’s not needed in Japanese martial art (4) | JUJITSU minus ITS | |
| 21 | PRESSURE POINT | |
| Control of bleeding upset prisoner undergoing treatment (8,5) | Anagram of UPSET PRISONER | |
| 24 | PARTIAL | |
| Unfinished creative work, one pocketed by friend (7) | (ART + I) inside PAL | |
| 26 | PLIABLE | |
| Piano, open, is easily moved around (7) | P + LIABLE | |
| 27 | REGISTRAR | |
| Doctor’s substance, right, ingested by parent? (9) | (GIST + R) inside REAR | |
| 28 | SPENT | |
| Weary stock holder sat in middle of street (5) | PEN inside ST | |
| Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
| 1 | RITE | |
| Foremost part of religious item to a great extent? (4) | (R)eligious + (ITE)m | |
| 2 | COLLABORATE | |
| Company and political group, entering at the last minute, work together (11) | CO + (LABOR inside LATE) | |
| 3 | PLINTH | |
| Phone about soft material in architectural support (6) | PH outside LINT | |
| 4 | DODDERING | |
| Feeble stranger involved in minor accident (9) | ODDER inside DING | |
| 5 | PATNA | |
| Occupants of camp at natural place in northern India (5) | camP AT NAtural | |
| 6 | SUSPENSE | |
| Writers, in short, primarily use a feature of all good thrillers (8) | PENS inside [(S)hort + USE] | |
| 7 | TEE | |
| A golfer hits from here and there alternately (3) | (T)h(E)r(E) | |
| 8 | RESPECTFUL | |
| Papa, trapped by curse, felt strangely humble (10) | P inside anagram of CURSE FELT | |
| 12 | INEQUITABLE | |
| Trendy and quite disturbed expert is prejudiced (11) | IN + anagram of QUITE + ABLE | |
| 13 | GLASS PAPER | |
| Doctor, holding female parrot, right, could be smoother? (5,5) | GP outside LASS + APE + R | |
| 16 | SANDPIPER | |
| Bird and related disease featured in series (9) | (AND + PIP) inside SER | |
| 17 | TINSNIPS | |
| Tool that cuts metal isn’t adapted to turn around (8) | Anagram of ISNT + (SPIN reversed) | |
| 20 | DIXIES | |
| Stamps found on the outside of nine big pots (6) | DIES outside IX | |
| 22 | RULER | |
| One responsible for stock losses – no saint or leader (5) | RUSTLER minus ST | |
| 23 | PELT | |
| Coat with batter (4) | Double Definition | |
| 25 | RUG | |
| Hair replacement medicines with no restrictions? (3) | d)RUG(s |
Thanks for the help – couldn’t parse 20 Down.