Across: 8. Hot craft, not cold! (7) 10. Drug plant to mostly fund company (7) 11. Medium of some 19 in city (5) 12. Not one deign art sexy when turned around with unknowns removed... it's not in touch any more (9) 13. Still alive bread ingredient as extracted (3) 15. Play sure nicer to act with lover (11) 16. It brought relief when you finally abandoned broken values (5) 17. Bar is mostly a financial business (3) 18. Really dislikes unseemly haste (5) 19. A sting, drive-developing? (11) 22. And so on and on and on some dogs play this heartily (3) 24. Inter alia, naked lust ran country with 17 across on 10 19 on 11 and 14 since 1976 (9) 25. Magazine reporting on fashion and new 14 host (5) 27. He provided the fastest deliveries, topping hundred odd mph... scourge of nervous openers! (7) 28. Empirical studies, essential parts of physics & molecular chemistry, converged and indicated disease (7) Down: 1. Missing 8 accessory? Hospital removed! (6) 2. Respiratory illness could rule out union (4) 3. One bed in nine for drug taken by 8 (8) 4. Government directed strange taunts about previous head of state (5 3) 5. A "bro" accepts first and last hug in Latino neighbourhood (6) 6. Summer in the Pyrenees included tragic climb using ecstasy and modern 3 product (1-9) 7. Red's told off for immature ones (8) 9. Big target mostly getting hit (5) :14. Medium is evil: note corruption! (10) 16. Biases about each possible source of harmful fumes (8) 17. Bring about mostly inactive restriction (8) 18. Sterilised fish by dipping tails in ice arrangement (8) 20. Most unusual arrest, with one taken down only slightly (6) 21. Criminal maims community leaders (5) 23. see 26 26,23. Telephoned to call off swapping ends as consequence of 8 (4 6) Solution: A=C=N===S=A=E=T| SMOKING=TOBACCO| T=L=C=R=A=R=I=D| RADIO=ESTRANGED| A===T=A=E=Z=A=L| YET=INTERCOURSE| ==E=N===U===E=R| SALVE=BAN=HATES| E=E===R===Y=T==| ADVERTISING=ETC| L=I=A=D=M=I===A| AUSTRALIA=ELLEN| N=I=E=I=M=N=U=C| THOMSON=SCIENCE| S=N=T=G===C=G=R| Name: 918 - Naked Lust Author: by BenDR Annos-Across: 8. SMO(c)KING 10. TO + BAC(k) + CO 11. AD in RIO 12. rev( DE(i)GN ART SE(xy) ) 13. YE(as)T 15. *( SURE NICER TO ) , ext def 16. *( VAL(u)ES ) 17. BAN(k) 18. *HASTE 19. *( A STING DRIVE ) &lit 22. (f)ETC(h) 24. (l)UST RA(n) in ALIA 25. ELLE + N 27. acrostic T(opping) H(undred) ... N(ervous) , ext def 28. middle letters from ( phySics moleCular ... disEase ) Annos-Down: 1. AS(h)TRAY 2. CO(u)LD 3. ( I COT ) in NINE 4. ER in *TAUNTS 5. A BR(A Z)O 6. rev( T(E)RAGIC ) in ETE 7. *( RED'S TOLD ) 9. *TARGE(t) :14. *( IS EVIL NOTE ) 16. S(EA)LANTS 17. IDL(e) in BRING 18. (fis)H (b)Y (dippin)G + *( IN ICE ) 20. ARREST with A one spot lower 21. *MAIMS 26,23. ends swapped on ( R-UNG CANCE-L ) Defs-Across: 8. Hot 10. Drug plant 11. Medium 12. not in touch any more 13. Still 15. act with lover 16. It brought relief 17. Bar 18. Really dislikes 19. A sting, drive-developing? (11) 22. And so on 24. country with 17 across on 10 19 on 11 and 14 since 1976 25. 14 host 27. He provided the fastest deliveries 28. Empirical studies Defs-Down: 1. Missing 2. Respiratory illness 3. drug taken by 8 4. Government directed 5. hug in Latino neighbourhood 6. modern 3 product 7. immature ones 9. Big :14. Medium 16. possible source of harmful fumes 17. restriction 18. Sterilised 20. Most unusual 21. community leaders 26,23. consequence of 8