Across
1
Two beastly males providing stiff fabric (7)
9
Titleholder, excluding a single Tory leader (7)
10
Take on US prison where child may be behind bars (7)
11
Fashionable perfume, fundamentally (2,7)
12
Severely criticise traditional Sunday lunch (5)
13
Twig, for example, brought back by bird (3,2)
15
A net helps wild animals (9)
17
Down with legal document constraining journalists (9)
22
I'd quit the Sunshine State for this girl (5)
23
Place to eat pastry that's brought back to Rhode Island area (9)
25
Non-combatant lacking distinctive features (7)
26
Former opener for Essex enters punctually (3-4)
27
Traitor's initial motive for his crime (7)
28
Sign of life after sappers drive back (7)
Down
1
Hope and Crosby going up and down (7)
3
Tears as leading character in romance dies (5)
4
"True men" is false! (9)
5
Old man in one sort of tree has to climb another (5)
6
Marine creature lookin' round the bend? (3,6)
7
Leader in a pact that's been arranged (7)
8
Cough mixture was our connection, we hear (7)
14
He's among group of stars in reference book (9)
16
Try shuffling over a dune (9)
17
Expired time after amusement in December (7)
18
Obtain professional medical treatment (7)
20
Princess gets stuck into pink drink (7)
21
Cat sees bats about one in the morning (7)
23
Not a lonely part for a hooker? (5)
24
Belgian city ignoring an ass (5)