1: Ran across one package decoration in colorful display (7)
5: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)
8: Vie with prisoner and nurse (7)
9: 19-across, perhaps, bites indeed (5)
11: Writer deserts pea-green match (5)
12: Englishman opening a can to dine at home (3,2)
13: Start reducing salt? (3)
14: Check strong drink of 22-acrosss bold alter ego (5,6)
16: Child, bask by the sound (3)
18: Clothilda is carrying a parcel (3)
19: Girl mostly into turning inside out - it's never ending! (11)
21: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)
22: Vegetable has red cap (5)
24: Long for a mass of reporters (5)
25: First confession left the listener feeling no doubt (5)
26: Vessel in swell exit (7)
27: Enormous lady may damage clothes (7)
28: Leaves permitted by cute cook (7)