Across
1 Places where distressing activities take place as a routine (6,5)
9 Company car woman takes for bullfight (7)
10 Main colour? (3-4) SEA BLUE
11 Graduate gains colour, having dropped all clothes (5) BARED
12 Getting dumpy nose fixed, acquire another name (9) PSEUDONYM
13 Brief from smarter setter (5) TERSE
15 Goes too far while climbing the staircase? (9) OVERSTEPS
18 Reassert a refurbishment is needed for places from where no driving should be made (4,5)
21 One getting up for part of flight (5)
22 Soldier to abandon traitor (6,3)
24 Yes, a high school may have these maids (5)
26 Circumspect Creole admits good artist (2,5)
27 Nothing to one dress brought back from range (7)
28 Activity happening in 1ac. or as part of some Hindu ritual (11)
Down
1 One who criticises people but not to their faces (9)
2 More infrequent artist on engineer’s third circuit (5)
3 Reviled so badly, they act badly (9) EVILDOERS
4 It removes dirt from locks (7)
5 Old boy on spectacle that’s disgusting (7) OBSECENE
6 Good man with viewpoint (5) STAND
7 Malicious reports not initiated by people living in Sri Lanka, say (8) SLANDERS
8 Treatment that creates waves in the hair salon (4) PERM
14 Travelled, we hear, to initial info by the way (4,4)
16 Runnel — a small measure in the thoroughfare (9)
17 Putting pressure on troublesome girl to leave (9)
19 One is underneath a church official as derived by logic (1,6)
20 An act is reviewed as utterly wicked (7)
22 Said to have longed for having the colour changed (4)
23 Smoke emanating from three chulahs (5)
25 Air India to uphold liberal defence (5)