No 13811, Monday 13 Mar 2023, Incognito

Solution to 25D has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered only by a non-regular / novice commenter, with proper annotation. Those who have answered earlier in the week, please give others a chance.

ACROSS

8   Soft material wrongly left (4) FELT*

9   Australian tirade after inactivity in eating joint (10) RESTAURANT {AU}{RANT}<=>{REST}

10 River grit is transported (6) TIGRIS* 

11 MIT car is recycled into sword (8) SCIMITAR*

12 Vacillated and passed away around the start of race (8) DITHERED {DI{THE}{Race}ED}

14 Arrange life insurance in absence of Lucifer? That's silly! (6) INSANE{life+INSurANcE}*

16 West Indian parliamentarian's a coward (4) WIMP {WI}{MP}

17 Taxi in front of Indian Uncle Tom's place (5) CABIN {CAB}{IN}

18 Poet from Zanzibar dynasty (4) BARD [T]

19 Finally, salt is spilt around a table top (2,4) AT LAST {AL{A}ST*}{Ta..e}

21 Oriental is manacled holding lucky charm (8) TALISMAN [T]

23 Agitated hag loses rubber shoes? (8) GALOSHES*

26 College scientist decapitated in burial casket (6) COFFIN {C}{bOFFIN}

27 Devilish idol CIA lab manufactured (10) DIABOLICAL*

28 Regretted French road is near end of junk-yard (4) RUED {RUE}{j...rD}

DOWN

1   Convicted criminal who repeatedly commits offences, wrongly revisits without a bit of shame, and goes around police department (10) RECIDIVIST {REVISITs}* over {CID}

2   Enterprise, perhaps, formed from saint redesigning parish (8) STARSHIP {ST}{PARISH*}

3   Times queen gets rubber? (6) ERASER {ERAS}{ER}

4   In the beginning, animals sneak past scorpions and snakes (4) ASPS Acrostic

5   Violent maniac captures American soldier and sorcerer (8) MAGICIAN {MA{GI}CIAN*}

6   Coaches saint travelling around end of December (6) TRAINS {T{d...eR}AINS*}

7   Civilisation found in Dublin, California (4) INCA [T]

13 Charge short debutante having sex-appeal (5) DEBIT {DEB}{IT}

15 Sir, van rate is wrongly stated in accounts (10) NARRATIVES*

17 After Egyptian leader was extracted, ethically demolished government building (4,4) CITY HALL {eTHICALLY}*

18 Forest conflagration? Dismiss president first! (4,4) BUSH FIRE {FIRE}<=>{BUSH}

20 Beam is bent around middle of October by a small organism (6) AMOEBA {AM{octOber}EB*}{A}

22 Look around the French neighbourhood (6) LOCALE {LO}{CA}{LE}

24 Keen members of Pahlavi dynasty (4) AVID [T]

25 King Charlie 'as turned over in bed (4) S?C? (Addendum - SACK {K}{C}{AS}<= - See comments)

Reference List

Australian = AU, Parliamentarian = MP, Indian = IN, College = C, Road in Feench = RUE, Saint = ST, Queen = ER, American soldier = GI, Sex-appeal = IT, Look = LO, Around = CA, The in Frenceh = LE