ACROSS

1. Pout about appointment now (2,2,4)
5. Makes better notices about staff (6)
10. Host a misrepresentation (3,2)
11. Performances about each politician (9)
12. Line may have tears in it (9)
13. Afternoon tea said by some to be in the country (5)
14. Space station time an illusion (6)
15. Music for a nymph (7)
18. Communication in policy (3,4)
20. Horse says nay (6)
22. Leaderless churchman changes sides of antique (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 mothers' - 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 (6)
16. Strictness is unpolitic; it should be free (9)
17. Town 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