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Puzzle No 1034

1. An intimate relationship with a social function (6) 5. Beverage described by Oscar and Mike in biblical language (4-4) 9. Put cork in the day before and left with altimeter on zero (3,5) 10. No French stout is low-cal (3-3) 11. Current time for the gifted? (7-3) 12. Stubborn in general, on edge (4) 13. Bearded eastern rebel leader gets stuck into the Scotch (8) 16. Flap reveals he is covered in some sort of dirt (6) 17. Fortune includes a couple of francs? Nonsense (6) 19. Flatter and sort of flavourless (8) 21. What the painter put on (4) 22. Religious leader rips into TV aerial (6,4) 25. Health facility has about 50 registered for intensive care (6) 26. A medical treatment of no value: get almost completely nude, buried in earth (5,3) 27. Skin treatment requires deleting computer program from scheduled meeting (8) 28. String player in mortal sin takes note (6) 2. Refer mistakenly to being more liberal (5) 3. The reference book is finally unfinished (5) 4. European Union at no time comes up with its total income (7) 5. Time off initially how one likes it during a year (7) 6. Do enemy out of being rich (7) 7. Appear high in the honours list when announced for being ignorant (9) 8. Judges make queer man sexier (9) 14. One opinion survey in Ohio disturbed the great unwashed (3,6) 15. Fasten yet fudge a guarantee of security (6,3) 18. He follows a race that’s been fixed, a pain in the neck or rather nearby (7) 19. Tabby is reassigned to look after the offspring (7) 20. Shout a large beer for this lady (7) 23. Former English right to wield power (5) 24. Manages about one ghost town (5)