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Both sets of clues lead to the same answers, revealing in the shaded squares a film starring Kevin Costner (6,4)
STRAIGHT CLUES ACROSS 1 Footing the bill (6) 5 Corridors (8) 9 Comes into prefruiting flower (8) 10 Proverbs (6) 11 Unpopular rodent (3) 12 The one after the tenth (8) 14 Wild, fronded plant (4) 15 English composition (5) 17 Wild, striped cat (5) 18 Trousers or skirt holder (4) 19 Teeth doctors (8) 23 Punch or slap, e.g. (3) 25 Depositing eggs, etc. (6) 26 Organised (8) 27 Assesses sizes, etc. (8) 28 Bed linen items (6) DOWN 2 Colleague (4) 3 Protection against risks (9) 4 Old coin, worth four pence (5) 5 Adhesive (5) 6 Left over (5) 7 Astound (5) 8 At long last (10) 13 Not accidental (10) 16 Body, consistence (9) 20 Pleasure outings (5) 21 Sweetener (5) 22 Aquatic mammals (5) 23 Injures (5) 24 Top quality (4) CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS 1 Coughing up is making things worthwhile! (6) 5 Spend long periods in sea crossings (8) 9 Blooms outside ship are still blooms! (8) 10 Present time and times for sayings (6) 11 Creature having beginnings of really awful tail (3) 12 This hour is about as late as you can get before time is up! (8) 14 Far Eastern Royal Navy leaders showing growth (4) 15 Attempt to read a piece of literary work (5) 17 Some prestige read into an undomesticated creature (5) 18 Commonly 23 Across the supporter? (4) 19 They conduct oral examinations (8) 23 Strike produces success (3) 25 Putting down tarmac is a gainly effort (6) 26 Fixed up and laid out (8) 27 Evaluates numbers of musical steps (8) 28 Pieces of paper with re-written theses (6) DOWN 2 All you initially needed in a friend (4) 3 Cover could make us cannier (9) 4 Goat crossing river for a small sum of money (5) 5 Adhesive tape’s out of order! (5) 6 Additional but thin (5) 7 Stagger with a garden feature? (5) 8 Lute levy an alternative finally? (10) 13 To talk something over is quite intentional (10) 16 Beneath position of importance (9) 20 Stumbles upon excursions (5) 21 Sweet stuff producing us rag? (5) 22 Securely encloses the aquatic creatures (5) 23 Is not kind when redesigning hurst (5) 24 The optimum magazine! (4)
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