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Both sets of clues lead to the same answers, revealing in the shaded squares an ITV comedy drama starring Fay Ripley (4,4)
STRAIGHT CLUES ACROSS 1 Part of a tea set (6) 5 Punishment pronounced (8) 9 Personal portable rain shield (8) 10 Aim, design (6) 11 Otic organ (3) 12 Made ready (8) 14 Group of troops (4) 15 Elevators (5) 17 Facial hair (5) 18 Transmit, or post (4) 19 At 90 degrees to forwards (8) 23 Digit on one’s foot (3) 25 Chorister (6) 26 Name, title (8) 27 Rural workers (8) 28 Going by bike (6)
DOWN 2 Equips with guns (4) 3 Woodworker (9) 4 Straight edge (5) 5 Flood, inundate (5) 6 Sound (5) 7 Additional optional item (5) 8 Linking (10) 13 Not sharply focused (10) 16 Checked over (9) 20 Margins (5) 21 Protective garment (5) 22 Long narrow gaps (5) 23 Belonging to them (5) 24 Render senseless (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS 1 It’s just part of a set for the cup holder (6) 5 A few words being pronounced in court? (8) 9 It goes up when it comes down, naturally (8) 10 Meaning to get under canvas? (6) 11 Listening device held in the arsenal (3) 12 Got ready before having shaved (8) 14 Item held in the ammunition store (4) 15 Flits about with things making us upwardly mobile? (5) 17 Facial feature with 11 Across in the outskirts of Bedford (5) 18 Dispatch some brass end-stops (4) 19 Sways around, die out inside in a horizontal direction (8) 23 Getting some feeling to each basal digit (3) 25 Just one vocalist among the many songsters in Germany (6) 26 Name for a tiny tide variation (8) 27 Country types seeing birds without aspiration (8) 28 Going by horse to an old part of Yorkshire (6)
DOWN 2 Weapons obtained from Mars (the God of War) (4) 3 Having fish, go into the chippie! (9) 4 It may provide a guide line for a monarch, say (5) 5 Made progress in water, perhaps initially in boggy area (5) 6 A sound from the piano, I sense (5) 7 Wide, possibly. Additional, certainly! (5) 8 Associating things when joining up (10) 13 Vague sort of article (10) 16 Examined septic end product (9) 20 Proceeds carefully in the outer parts (5) 21 Part of a stage garment? (5) 21 Cleanly cuts through such narrow openings (5) 23 Belonging to those people in that place, we hear (5) 24 Leaders of some troops used news which is knockout! (4)