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1 Weapon worn on the back of the hand (5,8) 9 Bone in the lower leg (5) 10 Accomplished and prolific writer (9) 11 Bedtime drink (8) 12 Not often (6) 14 Tempest (5) 16 Thankfulness (9) 18 Bankrupt (9) 19 Barbarian invaders of the Roman Empire (5) 20 Hoyden (6) 22 To the front (8) 26 Female singing voice (9) 27 Anguish (5) 28 Mint-flavoured liqueur (5,2,6) DOWN 1 Conductor’s stick (5) 2 Vague, equivocal (9) 3 Spear handle (5) 4 Excessively modern (10) 5 Program of horse races (4) 6 Paying attention (9) 7 Caught sight of (5) 8 Flues (8) 13 Gourmet (10) 14 Neuralgia of the thigh and calf (8) 15 Australian city, capital of Victoria (9) 17 Ultimate, out-and-out (9) 21 Frenetic, crazed (5) 23 Make cloth (5) 24 Fashion (5) 25 Joy (4) 1 Part of MBA program is at the front of the flight (8,5) 9 Shadows one side of the coin (5) 10 Made-up land by drawing off air in a rut (9) 11 Pelt gang members with some sort of vegetable (8) 12 Near primitive instinct to probe swarming bees (6) 14 Trace schools that rise to the bait (5) 16 Lilac isn’t propagated from grain (9) 18 Take some risks if tin fits in sweet container (3,2,4) 19 Mongrel’s prehensile tail and evil eye (5) 20 Stays cloudy at first or settled (6) 22 Car inlet played the part of woodwind (8) 26 London docker was sore after sea crossing (4,5) 27 Essential to sing less than upper registers (5) 28 Balmy spells of late subcontinental mathematicians? (6,7) DOWN 1 Have a dip to beat initial heat waves (5) 2 Burns treatment may count in Germany amongst the poor (4,5) 3 When a salad sandwich is on the nose (5) 4 Special bent coat of armour? (6,4) 5 Nit-pick the right side, inside one’s hat (4) 6 Gold Coast’s final ethnic conflict was the real thing (9) 7 Part of backward agrarian Israeli desert region (5) 8 Central innate conflict peaked with Homo sapiens (5,3) 13 Brandishing a rifle and other weapons as warnings signals (4,6) 14 Skip difficult choice made in right environment (8) 15 Once edited, let out with proof of possession (5,4) 17 Roget lent distinction to operatic spectacles (9) 21 Flourishing in the heart of Indian sage (5) 23 Bottom most opening may provide more ammunition (5) 24 Works over the verges of Egypt’s streets (5) 25 Opinion taken up towards the end of encyclopaedia (4)