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Across | 1 | | Medusa's circles taken for granted (7) |
| 5 | | Short month gathering shells etc.
for giant (7) |
| 9 | | See 6 Down |
| 10 | | Yielding beef with two adjacent
bits switched round (9) |
| 11 | | Creamy-white car pulling another?
That's far from life's realities (5,5) |
| 12 | | Military commander needs source of
royal jelly (4) |
| 14 | | Mixed metaphors I start to
consider as evoking a certain
feeling (11) |
| 18 | | Darken floor for 1920s dance (5,6) |
| 21 | | Nothing quiet on the right side of
Conservative Club (4) |
| 22 | | Channel Isles cutting attendance
shows foresight (10) |
| 25 | | American citizen's novel way to oust batsman (3,6) |
| 26/24 | | Owl nest strewn with punctured egg
openings, found at top of stairs? (5,4) |
| 27 | | Crooked politician possibly
retiring – rest uneasily (7) |
| 28 | | Type of paint showing no name/date
on ladder? (3-4) |
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Down | 1 | | Star officer in amateur broadcast (6) |
| 2 | | Taken in, taken in by a pig – a
mere appearance of one? (6) |
| 3 | | "The rich have much
influence," Rand says? (5,5) |
| 4 | | Circle following Garland's look (5) |
| 5 | | Strum 'Me Me!' arrangement –
accent in a theatrical manner (9) |
| 6/9 | | Western transport union leader in
terminal mishap (4,5) |
| 7 | | Duck shooting gallery right at end
of alley? It's for cool-climate fruit growers (8) |
| 8 | | Successful sequence that involved
strain (3,5) |
| 13 | | 'Fungus', a politician cutting
knot of hair (10) |
| 15 | | No ark – more, perhaps, a small
sail (9) |
| 16 | | Muscles study with hollowed out
dress bolts (8) |
| 17 | | Elevated road agent has style (8) |
| 19 | | Americans were in possession of
the solution (6) |
| 20 | | Backing of china-spliced wattle (6) |
| 23 | | Deadly agent's dress covering end of gun (5) |
| 24 | | See 26 Across |
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