cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1 In favour of action, daughter is moving ahead (7)

5 In block of flats, an actor returned for a card game (7)

9 Sit with a revolutionary storyteller (5)

10 Sweet fruit dip (5,4)

11 Rags-to-riches story recalled in novel (10)

12 Fell in dock (4)

14 Analytical essay – it is on squid, I suspect (12)

18 Reportedly picked up crowd controller for trial (5,7)

21 Turn back on monster (4)

22 Noble actor is portrayed differently in painting (10)

25 Bad thing, stick in cabaret (9)

26 Type of poplar tree in a small enclosure (5)

27 Followers reunite in resort (7)

28 Former partner, big enough for a model (7)

DOWN

1 Firm reduced by half since company’s disaster (6)

2 Feel bitter now having lost opener (6)

3 Go up for prize (10)

4 Research done, primarily, on most of magical beings (5)

5 Disease in grouse (9)

6 Socially unacceptable foreign noun (3-1)

7 Scornful of son having organised raid on clubs (8)

8 A page on pop, perhaps, is easy to understand (8)

13 Fix a drink entertaining a duke – cocktail required (4,6)

15 Bad in first half of reel after square dance (9)

16 Check on board earlier vessel (8)

17 Completely unacceptable claim (8)

19 Surface cut short ahead (4,2)

20 Immediately make amends round about (2,4)

23 Fur, first of bargains in market (5)

24 Heads turned in shock (4)