1 A more recent version of "Not in bed with escort" (6)
5 Brief al fresco transmission of the French suggestive of hardness (8)
9 Point of direct impact pulverised to nothing (6,4)
10 Exercise out of the question as Gary Cooper declined (4)
11 Football is taken home to old stone-thrower (8)
12 Talking success in familiar sports car (6)
13 Sticks around being complacent (4)
15 Embracing 1960s teen style, Times moves forward (8)
18/19 Smashing word – the latest, as it happens (8,4)
21 He thought of being Commissar Trechnikov's middleman (6)
23 In California, park Bentley finally and ring Middle Easterner (8)
25 Here, listen to this – exercise without directions (4)
26 Alien, Martian, ET accepting time is the reverse of the usual worldly stuff (10)
27 Practice of making china appointments (8)
28 Very 'Skoda', floppy shorts (6)

2 Jacket potato topping's on vessel, note (5)
3 Columbine takes stage during repeated Iolanthe opening, in blue-green (9)
4 Here's one – those people commonly flourish (2,4)
5 Windows possibly used by the methodical knife-wielder? (9,6)
6 Entrance-blocker comes up against this predicament in the raising of offspring (4,4)
7 Clair West to continue with present policy? (5)
8 Getting by with saying “It'll cut out tight bends” (6,3)
14 Duck out of mergers arranged to cramp one (9)
16 Agitated Tiny pointlessly damned and blasted (9)
17 The well-read, turned-on age – flipping Information Technology! (8)
20 So MI5s ruthlessly on the heels of a writer (6)
22 'Colossus' artist loses interest (5)
24 Article thanks character (5)