5  Awkward state...endless nausea, in a mess...bit embarrassing (6)

10 Sound tests in a second (5)

11 Bawdy brother-in-law from New Delhi starts to cheat on debts (9)

12 A voice quality, by the sound of it pointed to Yom Kippur theme? (9)

13 Decorate blue-red ship (5)

14 Legal enactments protect lead provider (6)

15 Twist died! OMG, a minor deity! (7)

18 Obstacles faced alongside this timid chap from Bleak House (7)

20 Regret Satis Houses' rejection of a winery employee, perhaps (6)

22 From the beginning, Esther's modestly bashful, eerily resembling dying coal (5)

24 Little woman's torrid? Oddly, she is Dickens' most selfless character (3,6)

25 An evening with the Marquis is all that Gaspard wanted? (3,3,3)

26 Initial letters from Fagin, Oliver lost in old manuscript (5)

27 A sound player, Steerforth's half out..sadly gets zero (6)

28 Drown one sister on a rendezvous (8)

 1  Lady Havisham initially, overwhelms alien criminal causing death (6)

 2  Clone this sausage from melted plain chocolate (9)

 3  Geezer, once sober became a host to many a ghost? (8,7)

 4  Guts one craves to crush (7)

 6  Corrupt FBI found income from miser, essentially the Golden Dustman? (9,6)

 7  Desolate, having lost heart, Allen desperately nurses some Ouzo (5)

 8  European, with leg on either side, loses heart for small part of Manhattan (4,4)

 9  Journalist's dead within, but in heaven (6)

16 Lure a girl to become a member of the resistance (9)

17 Estella's best ostrich swallowed a carcinogen? (8)

19 Yes! Old saint gets young and bubbly (6)

20 Go into building in an attempt to deceive someone (3,2,2)

21 Pet Mark (6)

23 Nearly ram an isolated hill (5)