Across
1 One gets into hot water for brewing a drink (3,3)
5 Another way of looking at second actor (2-4)
10 Stupidity of ill-treating caring one (9)
11 Feature of an audio tape having words spoken in an undertone? (5)
12 Lacking very instrument to remove frost (2-3)
13 Perhaps wild or raw hostilities (5,3,1)
14 Slender woman — sick, old and extremely weedy (7)
16 Dad taking risk swallowing special red pepper (7)
18 Most exciting and periodically cut-throat cricket match (7)
20 Lively music I'm any day content in backing (7)
21 Show irrational dislike towards refreshing pedicure around Japan (9)
23 Sign a voucher (5)
25 Act outright aloof (5)
26 Is column dug through hard soil? (9)
27 Public gym included pole dancing (6)
28 Utter a heartily lurid tirade (6)
Down
2 Drunken nuisance contributing to feeling of weariness (5)
3 Turning to run, get hold of a boat propeller (9)
4 Crowd move out of section in an aisle (7)
5 Resolve to improve (5,2)
6 S-solid fragment (5)
7 Mailman is on the run from beastly behaviour (9)
8 Operating system to skip having a browser (6-7)
9 Declaim recent changes to a hospital (7,6)
15 Low-cal feeds, man's mantra to be slim (9)
17 Point out best recipe for a red wine (5,4)
19 Time taken by Duckworth-Lewis going through extra tweak (7)
20 From the bottom up, rate each marine (4-3)
22 American and European Union power to deplete (3,2)
24 Kind of wine often seen as commonplace (5)
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