Cryptic Crossword August 2024

Across

1 Returned wanderer is a wasteful lad (8,3)

9 From Pamplona I retraced my steps elated (2,3)

10 Elephantine musician? (9)

12 Eat and drink sumptuously for 24 hours at Easter perhaps (5-3)

13 Made happy when Lesley’s enteredRose’s place (7)

15 Bull ring (5)

16 Proved capable having met requirements (9)

17 Endless worthless talent (4)

18 Jacob’s wife found grassland hard (4)

19 Reach the German suffering loss of rights (9)

20 Without any personal cover (5)

21 Real big trouble for divine messenger (7)

  24 Another rabbi may be found at castle gateway (8)

  26 Idle save room (6-3) 

27 Lady that is from South America first (5) 

28 To informer a remarkable revolution (11)

Down

2 River and its name in the country (5) 

3 Home for Syrian capitalists (8) 

4 Land in single benefice (5) 

5 Millie frenetically entered willingly (4) 

6 No French disk has been removed, it is designed to prevent slippage (3-4) 

7 Entertainer intended to be heard when on her feet (3-6) 

8 Round which Buddhists make appeals to the highest authority (6,5) 

11 Joanna in charge during troubled reign feeling great joy (9) 

13 In a word a light shrub! (7,4) 

14 Coming from citadel, is to do with those believing in existence of God (9) 

16 Marquise confused accepting thousand in religion (9) 

18 Steelier sort, most likely to give a lecherous look (8)

  19 Lover to have high opinion of redhead (7)

  22 Per this yearly (5)

  23 Very long time to muse (5) 

25 Futile area (2-2)