Irregular Crossword (January 2008)

Across:

5: A playing card that transmits electromagnetic waves. (9)
6: Use 27 across before while making sure not to confuse it with 7 down. (10)
8: From nonexistence to 34 to tutoring to 87. (7)
11: The theme's Reign. (6)
14: Quite possibly the most needed new TM of Diamond and Pearl. (10)
15: But that's my favorite hobby! (5)
17: Hand over that wand! (9)
18: It wouldn't have done the theme much good if it hadn't been for the physical/special change in D/P. (10)
21: The theme is one of the better users of this move in the game, but only sometimes. (3)
23: A guy on Seven Island gives free dance lessons. (11)
24: You'll need to rush it to the Pokémon Center for this. (9)
26: A Psychic move learned by a whole bunch of Pokémon but only one pure Psychic-type and two other part-Psychic evolution lines. (7)
27: Possibly the most bugged Pokémon move in R/B/Y. (11)
28: Until recently, the theme's evolution was one of only two Pokémon to be able to use this move and get STAB for it. (9)

Down:

1: Kind of like the starters, except not. (5)
2: It has a job? (10)
3: Trivial? (7)
4: The tables have turned? (8)
7: An HM much improved. (9)
9: The TM you get from a Gym leader who, appropriately, has the theme. (10)
10: Learned by the theme ever since Yellow. (10)
12: The more intimidating version of two functionally identical moves that a few Pokémon learn both of. (4)
13: Would have been appropriate for the theme if not for the physical/special change. (8)
16: Wrong typing, poor base damage, two turns, no first-turn benefits, useless TM... what more can they do to humiliate this poor move? (9)
19: An earlier move given a different name to replace it. (10)
20: The only way the theme will want this is if it comes from XD. (8)
22: The primary owner of the theme in the anime. (6)
24: What the theme appears to have been made for. (5)
25: The latest common healing move. (5)