1: Charged a couple of hundred, getting exploited (7)

4: Standard degenerates for reiterators (7)

8: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

10: Best Southern general retreats riding cross-country (5)

11: Argument in the meeting (5)

12: Beetles, for example, being produced by modern factions (7)

14: Amassing gold in confidence trick (7)

15: Material extracted, sent back (5)

16: A returned high ball is hard to do away with (7)

18: Police badge (7)

19: Confused poet initially enters self-help group (2,3)

21: He stirs up a one who had referred to him in the past. (7)

22: 'Observe!' I cry to the audience (7)

23: Cathy's new boat (5)

24: Hangs ten vassals at hearing (5)

26: Period email feature (3)

27: Fish found in the mountains (7)

28: Mortified humans - fifty per cent felt great pity (7)

1: Was pertinent Associated Press page misrepresented? (7)

2: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

3: Birds in white trousers (5)

4: Finish up with discontinued language? (6,3)

5: Conclude a recitation off-key (11)

6: Fling an item of furniture (3,5,5)

7: Magician's handy craft of little importance for the auditor (7)

9: Shifting financial fortunes cause industry revolution (8,5)

13: Exciting moment, actor as reviewer (11)

16: Foolishly I air spats of beekeepers (9)

17: Siamese toolmakers reportedly in colorful clothing (3-4)

20: Cut out ad about folding table (7)

22: Heartbreak land (5)

25: In all, just a little peak. (3)