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1 Moment heavyweight unit was unsurpassed (6,2,4) 9 Ring by noon, being vacant in the usual manner (7) 10 Safe conduct under father’s authority (7) 11 Listen in at rumblings of the gut (10) 13 Denomination was a little Latin American (4) 15 Traverse Portuguese India with crucifix (2,6) 16 Poverty and like extremes make one’s blood boil (6) 18 Move smoothly through straw, at first, like dry grass! (6) 19 Reluctant to recite difficult part of the Bible (8) 22 Partly open after a jolt (4) 23 Study about core had flawed figure (10) 25 Has nail set tongue wagging? (7) 26 Indignation over top of the range being used during blackout (7) 28 Seafood cooked by sailors acts like a laxative (1,4,2,5) DOWN 1 Top of shaker’s in wrong (3) 2 Guards indifferent class of pupils (10) 3 Most unpleasant seat isn’t stuffed (8) 4 Cover for head when turning hot tap (3,3) 5 Rations by numbers on front of house (4) 6 Cheap as well as expensive loved ones (4,3,4) 7 A class leader enters arena, moving as quickly as possible (6) 8 Think highly of American patriot on horseback (6) 12 Darjeeling trades in conditions that are a bit weepy (4-7) 14 Of a military band, for example, in terminal decline? (10) 17 Roman councillors in ornate dress boarding ship (8) 18 Scattered poles on the earth’s surface (6) 20 Loving money as payment (6) 21 Smooth passage of whipped gelato (6) 24 Take the fight up after bugle call (4) 27 Gull removed head from sea perch (3)