Cryptic #44 - by Symptomatic

Across 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

1 Bird, taking lead,

establishes camp
9 10
initally and
makes a stand (7)
5 Rest day for pop 11
band in southern
Thailand (7) 12

9 Clean, orderly 13 14 15 16
seminar in the
afternoon? (5) 17

10 Logical 18 19
consequence of
20
putting small
crown on royal 21 22 23
youths' heads (9)
24
11 I join a Greek
character to 25 26
prevent heels
being burned by
demon (14) 27 28

13 Personal
assistant job
given to a person
on release from 27 Small business to hundred - one 17 Trainer to dig
prison (6) m-meet fearless needs this to be under and inside
hunter? (7) exact (6) a ship (8)
15 Sharp Batting
101: take second 28 First signs of 5 Putting aside a 20 "Negative" team
single by the needing extra little mixed gin rejected brainbox
middle of the subscriptions to (8) (6)
over (8) language 6 Perhaps LeBron 22 Chemical
education James, playing essential for
18 Trim rump steak
software bundles with a dancer (9) Tinactin recalled
cooked tough (8)
(7) (5)
19 City to put 7 One handed a
pressure on cactus... (5) 23 Lord's armies
Down
letter, we hear? 8 ...to Aliyah, not lost formation
(6) 1 More nonsense after fourth
Al, by mistake as
dividing KISS - batallion killed
21 Deaden polluter a greeting (4)
the works written (5)
with a mixture?! by Cicero? (5,5) 12 The French
(8,6) soldier plans 24 Plenty of real
2 Agrees with one estate (4)
25 Birds pecked the point in negative passes (10)
top off mislaid arguments (9) 14 Thief looted
money (9) clarinets (9)
3 The Spanish
26 Identify one part measure one kind 16 Fair to break
of the Bible that of resin (5) even, finally (9)
could describe a
box (5) 4 Ninety minus one
number plus one