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Both sets of clues lead to the same answers, revealing in the shaded squares a new thriller starring Bill Skarsgård (2)

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STRAIGHT CLUES ACROSS

8 Government cabinet member (8) 9 Level of sound (6) 10 A gulch (6) 11 Cutting tool (8) 12 Strangely (5) 13 Grown-up, mature (5) 14 Rib, mock (5) 16 Thoughts (5) 18 Small British units of currency (5) 20 Each one, all (5) 25 Selecting (8) 26 Tune, song (6) 27 Light bites (6) 28 Fleeing (8)

DOWN

1 Coarse, bawdy (6) 2 Two-wheelers (8) 3 Nettle wound (5) 4 Top of coat of arms (5) 5 Evade, dodge (5) 6 Shut (6) 7 Personal rain shelter (8) 15 Large mammal (8) 17 Evolves (8) 19 Top quality, or selection (6) 21 Going by bike (6) 22 Initial (5) 23 Share an opinion (5) 24 Hit with the palm (5)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

8 Term is in order for a churchman (8) 9 Book with sound level measuremen­t (6) 10 Possibly annoy cheerleade­r first in a ravine (6) 11 Hold tools for a seamstress (8) 12 Initially on daily duty leading you in an uneven way (5) 13 A dullard, some say, is not a child (5) 14 Comb for a coquette? (5) 16 Notions of aides being exploited (5) 18 Heads in Paris even now charge English. Small change there! (5) 20 First woman on small railway with each one? (5) 25 Reportedly get one’s teeth into it and warble when being picky (8) 26 Tune from model confused with yodelling, at first (6) 27 One point in fires producing light meals (6) 28 Getting away with gap, since ordered (8)

DOWN

1 Coarse and hairless supporting rich idle chiefs (6) 2 Vehicles for moving Cicely in outskirts of Barnes (8) 3 A sharp pain from a pest, in general terms (5) 4 Hilltop and some gentle rolling acres, too (5) 5 Shun an empty space (5) 6 Shut up with clod, perhaps, outside Kent region (6) 7 It goes up when it comes down! (8) 15 The plane crashed into the beast (8) 17 Works in the dark, but gets the picture! (8) 19 Pick choc-ice with no core (6) 21 Travelling by horse in an old part of Yorkshire (6) 22 Up front with a tree on a small street (5) 23 Unusually eager to concur (5) 24 A fishing boat is a hit! (5)

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