Across
8. Painstaking papers back essentially glib man (8) (8) Hints
9. Badenoch reveals strain – of iron? (5) (5) Hints
10. Stable houses setter – was one lost? (4) (4) Hints
11. Regarding those unidentified, technology goes too far (8,2) (8, 2) Hints
12. Savages live, pasts quietly forgotten (6) (6) Hints
14. Video game reversed practice: that’s not right (8) (8) Hints
16. Drugs cost (including recipe) negotiable for gigolos (7) (7) Hints
18. Excuses politician embraced by alien in sex romp (7) (7) Hints
21. Otherwise show one mercy in service (8) (8) Hints
23. Revelling used to put out (6) (6) Hints
24. Football seen around half ten, with commentary for audience (5-1-4) (5-1-4) Hints
26. See 17 Down (4) Hints
27. Pool party after nude hen night not new (5-4) (5) Hints
28. More graceful win; limper member abandoned (8) (8) Hints
Down
1. Refs abused after boy band’s sporting feats (4-4) (4-4) Hints
2. See 15 (4) Hints
3. A couple short of a dozen legs – and joints? (6) (6) Hints
4. Burns fumes about cigar’s end (7) (7) Hints
5. See 22 (4) Hints
6. <span>Special few a part of </span><i>ménages à trois</i><span>?</span> (10) (10) Hints
7. Scratching surface of dark side in barrel (6) (6) Hints
13. Here solstice worshipping teens go wild, gobbling bird (10) (10) Hints
15. Golden age – at end of festivities? (7) (3) Hints
17. These world leaders on Russian river? It’s … it’s worth little in America (3,4) (3) Hints
19. Settlers erected timber frames (8) (8) Hints
20. Confused? Yes – call in dope dispenser (7) (7) Hints
22. England collapse over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over (10) (6) Hints
23. ‘Aussie’ (not American) nightwear (6) (6) Hints
25. Affected Reform UK, say, with head removed (4) (4) Hints
26. See 27 Across (4) Hints