CRYPTIC
Across
1 Hunan city, deserted during metamorphosis (7)
5 I opened up two containers ringed in Rome (7)
9 Key Maori war dance secures Asian capital (5)
10 Can ‘Salaam’ make amends here in old Moorish Spain? (9)
11 Old Yugoslav city where, the French admit, British arrive during the month with a Dane (9)
12 Initial London University overseas headhunting ends with Henan province site (5)
13 Originally Interstate 49, perhaps? (5,7)
17 Colombian port article linked with a writer in a Hebridean island (12)
22 Foil a marshal on Niue (5)
23 They signed here at a quarter past twelve, in a tribute to JFK? (9)
25 Place in Madagascar to develop almost into African (9)
26 Love following leave in S American city (5)
27 Peloponnesian idyll’s returning help with mostly W African capital... (7)
28 …the W African’s naira is, after all, worth more than the £! (7)

Down
1 Garonne city may move Prince, being in the pink! (8)
2 Accountant firm holds back record containing university’s location in Mexico (8)
3 Originally Glastonbury’s real ancient iconic legend? (5)
4 UK aides deployed in the Basque Country (7)
5 Austrian town’s church follows a Roman building (7)
6 Greek character gets internal promotion chasing tigers in S India? (5,4)
7 Guangzhou’s legacy of Swiss administration (6)
8 One in Vietnam casually touched on the old English set-up for colonial capital in Africa (6)
14 Morning landing’s bit tricky around marshy part of Botswana (9)
15 Sad flower heralding spring in Ethiopia? (4,4)
16 A domestic animal found among single cattle numbers in S African city (4,4)
18 Maria or another mystical conquest in Brazil? (7)
19 City near 12, where the grandmother is on the passive side, typically Chinese (7)
20 Cover for women in Lombard city (6)
21 Ancient law of marbles, pieced together by Greeks and Romans, mainly (6)
24 Noisy-sounding Americans around the Mexican border (5)

QUICK
Across
1 Industrial Hunan city and port on the Yuan R (7)
5 Base of the R Catholic Church (7)
9 Capital of Bangladesh (5)
10 City and province of NW central Spain (9)
11 Slovenian capital (9)
12 Chinese city of Henan province, south of Zhengzhou (5)
13 Original name of a Pacific thoroughfare, built as a military supply route in 1942 (5,7)
17 Colombian port and the first air terminal in S America (12)
22 Capital of the S Pacific territory of Niue (5)
23 Site of the signing of Magna Carta, 1215 (9)
25 Madagascan port (9)
26 Capital city of Ecuador (5)
27 Rustic Peloponnese paradise of antiquity (7)
28 Citizen of one (or two?) W African countries (7)

Down
1 French town which, via its US namesake, gave its name to a motorcar (8)
2 Mexican Pacific resort (8)
3 Piece of Christian mythology (5)
4 Basque homeland (7)
5 Industrial town of Carinthia, S Austria (7)
6 State of S India (5,4)
7 Ohio city where President McKinley is buried (6)
8 Capital of Niger (6)
14 NW region of Botswana (9)
15 Tributary whose source is L Tana, Ethiopia (4,4)
16 S Africa’s legislative capital (4,4)
18 Mountainous meeting point of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil (7)
19 Henan city near 12, on a northern tributary of the Yangtze (Chang Jiang) (7)
20 Italian city developed in the Renaissance period by the Gonzaga family (6)
21 Law of the Jews from Mt Sinai (6)
24 Indigenous Americans of the South West (5)