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BestCrosswords.com - "Cryptic Saturday #23" by Nic Pursey on 5/18/2019 [hard]
Across 1- Lock and hold tight (5); 4- Hate pot so instead I massage (9); 9- Screw around and carry on! (9); 10- Tied up, we hear, in confidence (5); 11- Pine about Tracy, initially awkward (5); 12- Apostles (left out), revoked thanks and became rebels (9); 13- Judge poem in Old English (7); 15- Force leader out of the union (7); 18- Born to me, sibling provokes retribution (7); 20- Dull and dreary instrument? (7); 21- Bronzed from building at nun's den (9); 23- High-speed bird (5); 25- Grieved for revolutionary staring out of notice (5); 26- Aliens (nose to toe), keeping perfectly quiet show manners (9); 27- Children's event to honour teen, has no starter (9); 28- Scottish poet who wrote on Scottish waters (5);   Down 1- Sign of the beast (9); 2- Quick-moving AI used with leg operation (5); 3- Drills, Bill's seen: wrenches outside (9); 4- Early roman type with aged countenance (3,4); 5- Vase carried by upper-class sort's pretty gross (4-3); 6- Ensemble seen in October, touring (half-term) (5); 7- Lover rat lured (tailed) - dater in bits (9); 8- Really dislikes headgear from Spain (5); 14- Men, Hamlet served up with cheese (9); 16- Not an impressive firework! (4,5); 17- Never-ending control's no so great (9); 19- Straight from the heart (7); 20- Emperor had Brian beheaded (7); 21- Sensational strike (5); 22- Car with zero sound equipment (5); 24- Combustible nitre's put six feet under (5);