Complete Clue List
Across
1. FATHER: Vital pumper
4. EMBARK: Breadmaker
7. FRAY: Scottish river
8. VANDAL: Marine force
9. POLKAS: Australian gems
10. TYPO: Choose
11. NELLIE: TV's DeGeneres
14. SYPHON: Chinese green tea
17. GELATO: Shoelace tip
20. LLAMAS: Minute
23. LICK: Type, kind
24. ONWARD: Mr Bean's alter ego Atkinson
25. TOYING: Gold bar
26. GONE: Military rank, in short
27. JUICER: Radium discoverer
28. DILUTE: Diacritical mark
Down
1. NEIGHS: Door pivot
2. VAINLY: Blacksmith's block
3. ATONAL: Eagle's claw
4. THROBS: Soup
5. BASKET: English poet
6. URSINE: Sappy stuff
12. GOLD: Ship's journal
13. BEER: Before, poetically
15. MARY: Tropical tuber
16. LOCI: Lubricant
17. ANURIC: Gold-related
18. TROWEL: Bring down
19. SIGNET: Slight colour
20. STINKY: Penniless, colloquially
21. FLANGE: Divine messenger
22. WEALTH: Wood shaper