3 28 40 1D 8 37. Two other unclued entries were involved. Ignore accents.

        Across

   1    Austrian novice without much flesh (8)

   5    Gift of story books (6)

   9    Man of uncertainty begins here, uncertainly (10)

14    Jenny perhaps was and is uninitiated (3)

16    Unruffled, drive GTi out of African national park (6)

17    Lustre of European mineral seen from behind (5)

18    People regularly taking part in sport make you sick (5)

20    Sculptor for example goes round scraping away (7)

22    Port of New Orleans (7)

24    Boy said yes after girl’s first seductive glance (4,3)

25    Drug ring finally fleeing Jamaica (5)

26    Ape caught...