ACROSS

1. Pout about appointment now (2,2,4)
5. Makes better notices about staff (6)
10. Misrepresent host (3,2)
11. Performances on a politician (9)
12. Line may have tears (9)
13. Afternoon tea said by some to be in the country (5)
14. Space station time an illusion (6)
15. Fun music for a wily nymph (7)
18. Communication channel in policy (3,4)
20. Western hybrid horse sound (6)
22. Leaderless churchman changes sides - something left behind (5)
24. Musk kept in, drawn out (9)
25. Archive about my damage (9)
26. Bi lad - or whatever you like? (2,3)
27. Pastry - like old mother's - back (6)
28. Demonry's concocted these symptoms (8)

DOWN

1. Interpret move in (6)
2. Inky bugler (9)
3. Polite heart heard representing us overseas (10,5)
4. Spinner damaged, i.e. burnt (7)
6. Trains here assembling a measure (11,4)
7. Ruth's mother, confused: 'I moan' (5)
8. Clergyman spookily dishevelled has no love but a shirt (3,5)
9. Pecan I chew, holding breath over the pond (6)
16. Strictness is unpolitic; it should be free (9)
17. French city where cleaner finds rest a mess (8)
19. To quote me backwards makes me sick (6)
20. Mocking about long mistake is not right (7)
21. Correctable? No thanks, but consumable (6)
23. Replacement we hear/see arrive (5)

Solution