Across
1
Bands take LSD with energy in empty stadiums (7)
5
Help for referees – it includes an alternative form (7)
9
Menial worker taking pound from e.g. Tiger Woods (5)
10
Settled how nun is dressed by Edward (9)
11
Tactics in games start going wrong (10)
12
Hairdo Doctor Faustus has pinned back (4)
14
Strange metaphors in Timon of Athens, say (11)
18
Pro drug smugglers getting signs of things to come (11)
21
One’s welcoming new name for pubs (4)
22
France’s very old-fashioned king, one invading others’ lands (10)
25
Crazy Tea Party figure forced to accept that crooked Republican (3,6)
26
You heard dram’s swallowed hot, not cool (5)
27
Detective Sergeant, drinking more rum, walks unsteadily (7)
28
Rifle poorly held by knight’s assistant (7)
Down
1
Saint, over a long period of time, is most judicious (6)
2
Religious education class mend their ways? (6)
3
Split up clocks, perhaps – they don’t always work (4-6)
4
Smart leader of The Police (5)
5
Fierceness shown by assertive he-men? Certainly! (9)
6
Massage Sally’s back, which is a deep red (4)
7
Disaster affected cat, dog and fox losing tail (3,2,3)
8
Little swimmers bit people from Warsaw, say (8)
13
Brighton and Hove Albion FC mostly play in Russia (3,7)
15
Girls from Madrid, say, modified assertion (9)
16
Declared an FBI agent protects business (8)
17
Chinese criminal gang admitting racket around West Indian island (8)
19
Advanced, complex maths generating complaint (6)
20
Kind of coffee female hip-hop artist hasn’t finished (6)
23
Fortified wine’s knocked back, in a bad mood (5)
24
Starters of pork after lazily eating pasty (4)