Cryptic crossword

Tuesday's puzzle...

ACROSS

8 Headgear for king, queen and ruler (8)

9 Joking apart (ie not getting started), it's visual (6)

10 To point in the wrong direction is to be implicated in damage (6)

11 Where old folk live with wisdom? (8)

12 Comfortable when weapons are withdrawn (4)

13 Energy detector with latitude or diameter (10)

15 See push for travelling to Biblical town (7)

17 See! See DC10 crashing! (7)

20 Trusted friend may be a trickster, if turning on poet (10)

22 Loud fuss made in game (4)

24 Empty landscape reported in recent times (8)

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26 Bacon may be responsible for sign of allergy taken to casualty (6)

27 Dine with chopped hops or hyssop? Fantastic! (6)

28 Setting engineer onto delta water causes aberration (8)

DOWN

1 Be just a child, you might say, but with good intentions (6)

2 Commanding officer to come into conflict in eight-sided affair (8)

3 Solid foundation on which company became millers (4,6)

4 Where driver gets into what women don't understand about football (7)

5 Boy and girl are united in musical piece (4)

6 Which French revolutionary offers, but real men don't eat (6)

7 She may ask, "Do you want to order a stew sir?" (8)

14 Go live over treatment of southern orchard (5,5)

16 Postpone proceeding on behalf of criminal (8)

18 Very large deficit sustained in fuel (8)

19 Means to count 500, taken in 50 steps (7)

21 River in the Vale of Yarrow (6)

23 Third Reich produced something dismal (6)

25 Able to return to island (4)