First grid I've done without auto-fill, though I did have to resort to a word finder. Next month's will be all my own work!
Across
1 Make pastry for Spooner to serve caviar (4,3,3,5)
9 Don't choose me: after the first of November I'll be in extreme confinement (3,2)
10 Don't ignore the day Poe got drunk (3,4,2)
11 Make chips faster: put King Edward in top half of oven (150C) with acceptable cover (9)
12 Consecutive passes a first for Maradona (5)
13 Call back to get a measure of modem performance (4)
15 Where there's a shell-like hearing the exact words (8)
18 Listen to Aussie rocker (8)
19 Bridge from Thames to the West, high and fair (4)
22 High country is GE-free at first (5)
24 Acceptable truce on vacant, marginal ground (9)
26 Outside dilapidated cabin is where Samoans stay fit (9)
27 Leaders of imperial delegation rendered impotent since Elba (5)
28 Roger owes Kate a French movie (3,5,7)
Down
1 Rome, lacking conclusion from senate, is without direction (6)
2 Opposing direction of a ruthless, wicked denomination (9)
3 It's pushed up by one bar, keeping fit after work (5)
4 To the average American girl, perhaps insinuates highest price (3,6)
5 Austrian economist finds agreement in part of China (5)
6 Moving Dalek with cord (like a rope) attached to head (9)
7 Nude gymnastics after university are inappropriate (5)
8 Bird droppings picked up in Devonshire park (6)
14 Poem about the setter is in a couple of small books (9)
16 Letters from Democrat rep on emancipation could give you syphilis (9)
17 Interference in programme (mostly dance) may hold up gala (5,4)
20 Bottom line, is Penny up for it? (6)
21 It's a party on a boat for the secret police (6)
23 Tax the church, stupid! (5)
24 Biro at the ready, recorded volume of boxes (5)
25 One of those quarterback Johnnies, loser of Superbowl I, who fought in Angola (5)