| 1 | Provide water to lab animal caught by monstrous character (7) |
| 5 | Hit again and again, cheerless crowd recoils (7) |
| 9 | Itemizes fifty-one streets (5) |
| 10 | Put a more palatable spin on complicated court saga (9) |
| 11 | Anger, perhaps, from returning large book; it carries a charge (7) |
| 12 | Adoring senator grabs baseball glove (7) |
| 13 | In the audience, observed part of a play (5) |
| 14 | Regularly overlapping brick, mostly, framed by one friend (9) |
| 17 | Left to seethe with desire, ultimately, in hype for trashy novel (9) |
| 19 | Removes tool storage units (5) |
| 21 | Meet officials collecting black pieces of wood (7) |
| 24 | Gave a hard time to baldest stranger (7) |
| 25 | Near village housing German bedroom attire (9) |
| 26 | Row with character from “The X Files” unendingly (5) |
| 27 | Sort things out, with praise for Persia, perhaps (7) |
| 28 | Collides with small three-wheelers (7) |
