Times 29155 – In C Major?

This one was not too bad, and I got through most of it fairly quickly before getting stuck at the end.    It was all the seaside towns that got me, and I wouldn’t have expected them to be right next to each other.      This part was probably not difficult for UK solvers.    I did know the sylphid and barsac, which definitely helped.    There were a couple of jokey alternate definitions, which this setter must like.

If I had been the editor, I might have been tempted to make a few revisions to smooth things out a bit, but each clue by itself is perfectly fair.

Across
1	Pacific territory’s current feeding Hants resort’s lights? (5,3,7)
	SOUTH SEA ISLANDS – SOUTHSEA (I) ‘S LANDS
9	Photo taken beside tree in army training area (9)
	ALDERSHOT -ALDER + SHOT
10	Lesson from gangster’s girl endlessly sheltering gunmen (5)
	MORAL – MO(RA)L[l].
11	Foreign currency quiet king invested in fish (6)
	SHEKEL – SH + E(K)EL.
12	Fairly outspoken, seemingly like some old Germanic people (8)
	FRANKISH –  An Uxbridge dictionary hint.
13	Enthusiasm that’s more difficult for Cockneys, they say (6)
	ARDOUR – Sounds like ‘ARDER….in some dialects.
15	Bewildered politician Fabians initially took advantage of (8)
	CONFUSED –  CON + F[abians] + USED.
18	Tirade about flipping hooter booming (8)
	RESONANT – R(NOSE backwards)ANT.
19	Local’s account for sweet white wine (6)
	BARSAC – BAR’S A/C.
21	Like many churches, soaked when lake gets in (8)
	STEEPLED – STEEP(L)ED.
23	Note by Irishwoman failing to finish biographical sketch (6)
	MEMOIR – ME + MOIR[a].
26	Vast number briefly concealing a cache (5)
	HOARD – HO(A)RD[e].
27	Talent exercised in articles relating to a legendary continent (9)
	ATLANTEAN – A(anagram of TALENT)AN
28	Snack meal for one who needs a share? (10,5)
	PLOUGHMANS LUNCH –  For one who presumably needs ploughshare.

Down
1	A lot of effort, keeping a couple of Poles in port (7)
	SWANSEA – SW(A,N,S)EA[t].
2	Improper but not outstanding? (5)
	UNDUE – Another facetious cryptic hint.
3	Clownlike character in doctors’ street mostly, one of several (9)
	HARLEQUIN – HARLE[y] + QUIN, one of five.
4	Genuine German playwright, not British (4)
	ECHT – [br]ECHT.
5	Collaborating investigators changed role in case of protest (8)
	INTERPOL – Anagram of ROLE IN + P[rotest]T.
6	Fruit supplied by half of them in half of capital (5)
	LEMON – L([th]EM)ON[don].
7	Beautiful youth thus managed to go north over South America (9)
	NARCISSUS – SIC RAN upside down + S + US.
8	Record concealed underneath extremely saucy little spirit (7)
	SYLPHID –  SY +LP +HID.
14	Wild ruffian’s frantic speed carved up road (9)
	DESPERADO – Anagram of SPEED + anagram of ROAD.
16	Classify sailors in Cornish river like brothers (9)
	FRATERNAL –  F(RATE RN)AL.
17	Provide too few pieces for such deliveries? (8)
	UNDERARM – UNDER ARM, in its Uxbridge sense.
18	Grew fashionable fruit (7)
	ROSEHIP – ROSE + HIP, a chestnut.
20	Continental port contributing to décor in Thessaloniki (7)
	CORINTH – Hidden in  [de]COR IN TH[essaloniki].
22	Half-wild canine’s function in Tamworth, perhaps? (2-3)
	PI-DOG – PI(DO)G.
24	Lyric poem about ancient entertainment venue (5)
	ODEON – ODE + ON.
25	Family beginning to languish in jail (4)
	CLAN – C(L[anguish]AN.