Cryptic crossword

Friday's puzzle...

Across

1 Reactionary science carried on in firm (7)

5 Thus girl travels round Mediterranean island (7)

9 Cell formed when Australia leaves Eurozone with new leader, while ... (7)

10 ... French vetos are more than constant (7)

11 Willing servant, we hear, comes off the peg, being ... (9)

12 ... more exposed than native servant, it's said (5)

13 See nothing less burying clay (5)

15 Dumb moans are resolved by mediator (9)

16 Flower taken to a science room is turned to stone (9)

18 Lad is second person to get the chop (5)

21 Society girl takes computers on account (5)

22 Come in! It's possibly Montezuma's revenge! (9)

24 Some rat masquerading as conductor, perhaps (7)

26 Layabout looks less ancient with new cap (7)

27 Ideas about pins and needles, for example (7)

28 Calms down upright saint (7)

Down

1 Have real fun dancing at wake (7)

2 It's Salvation Army custom to provide food (7)

3 Key West African coast (5)

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4 The friend's writing-up of article on gallery is where outcome can't be foreseen (3,3,2,3,4)

5 Be quick to hide evidence of formal dress, we hear, in account of pilgrimage (10,5)

6 Manage game no-one at first supports (3)

7 During session, I'm accepted in the meantime (7)

8 Drug for one havin' ambition (7)

12 Cheap tipple for old woman (5)

14 Begin to inhabit five-star tenement (5)

16 Almost be odd man out in front of body (7)

17 It's a bit mean to transform surrounding (7)

19 At university, drunk and anxious (7)

20 What the heroine will probably fall into when she is beset by evils, while ... (3,4)

23 ...hero undertakes concealment of ammunition (5)

25 The way to raise crop (3)

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