1: Recover via fantastic miracle (7)
 7: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)
 9: Mend a split state (11)
 10: However, you expect trouble at first (3)
 11: Pitch out heartlessly the cards. (5)
 12: Al's gamble on outcome of sports (4,5)
 14: In a dream I venerate clothing (7)
 15: The day ends with an unpleasant ancestral line (7)
 16: Putting in a nugget, maybe, put a point to venerated one? (7)
 19: Noisy tunnel in Queens or The Bronx, for example (7)
 22: Whip me. Our lust is timid (9)
 23: Flower part to lapse badly (5)
 24: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)
 26: Left with pal carrying new gold case (11)
 27: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)
 28: Sterne's novel settlers (7)