The usual bag of good tricks from Neyartha in this measured puzzle.ACROSS
1 Fair in the outskirts of the old city has a degree of warmth (11) TEMPERATURE (TEMPERATE around UR, which is an old Sumerian place that keeps popping up in crosswords)
9 Visual with current temperature at the wrong place (7) OPTICAL (TOPICAL, with the T in the wrong place)
10 Significance of the pause in recital (6)WEIGHT (~wait)
11 Son's serious about tempo (5)SPEED (S DEEP<=)
12 Rang for engineer Ken to turn Dell around (7)KNELLED (KEN* + DELL<=)
15 Smart Nigerian leader usurps power to supply rations (4)
16 Opera breaks brewer's bow (3,7)
18 Interpretation of a disregard to the star spangled banner? (2-8)
20 The windsail is worthless to the auditor (4)
23 The German's back with a video of the bureaucratic procedure (3,4)
24 Call for ceasefire includes constraint (5)
26 Size of coil model replaced by Bond's boss (6)
27 Expert studies can help one learn about rabbits initially (7)
28 Eternal divide bridged in an evening development (5-6)
DOWN
2 Revolutionary poem about South Carolina University gets old Portuguese money (6)
3 Remove the charm (4)
4 Rainbow got at sea in a dinghy (6,4)
5 Large number seen in note left on cooked tortellini (8)
6 Fixes a shoe as the northbound man stumbles around (7)
7 Unanimity shown when Rio expelled the disguised connoisseurs (9)
8 Worry and anguish after the princess abdicates (6)
13 Dome's area put at the bottom by man in Michigan (10)
14 Preserve to suspend boring (6-3)
17 Baby conceived outside the womb? (4-4)
19 Impressive for a Spanish honour to get respect outside (7)
21 Ignore trademark military manoeuvre without really thinking (6)
22 Heavily knitted woollen blanket for the countryman (6)
25 Soiled letters from a house detective (4)
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