1: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)
2: Clown with a tail. (3)
3: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)
4: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)
5: Material from N.Y. - Long Island (5)
6: Fix the oil platform ... (3)
7: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)
8: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)
11: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)
12: Quite put out, doctor axes red tape (11)
14: Be prepared with amnesties for truancy (11)
17: Drawing, for example, a bit of a cartoon (3)
21: Rule will end in some paper (5)
24: Vet theatre opening 8-down (3)
26: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)
27: Sort of uninitiated cheat (3)
28: God, transforming first day into last night, was received (3)