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Both sets of clues lead to the same answer, revealing in the shaded squares a new film starring Isla Fisher (3).

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STRAIGHT CLUES

ACROSS

8 Obstinate (8) 9 Casual garment (1-5) 10 Airline captains (6) 11 Last parts of daylight hours (8) 12 Started (5) 13 Natural aptitude (5) 14 Possessed (5) 16 Coarse, uneven (5) 18 Narrow-necked bottle (5) 20 Take place (5) 25 Of least age (8) 26 Dramatical­ly sad (6) 27 Winged insect (6) 28 Reducing to flour (8)

DOWN

1 Chevron (6) 2 Utter, total (8) 3 Grilled bread (5) 4 Book’s reference section (5) 5 Put into speech (5) 6 Piercing, highpitche­d (6) 7 Pulling roughly (8) 15 Greets with pleasure (8) 17 Apple and pear plantation­s (8) 19 US Upper House (6) 21 Labour organisati­ons (6) 22 At no time (5) 23 Platform (5) 24 A step indoors (5)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

8 Burnt orb’s turned out to be refractory (8) 9 Incredible thirst one’s assumed in the summer (1-5) 10 Plot is involved with high-fliers (6) 11 Seven-gin cocktail! Things get dark after these! (8) 12 Started a French plead first (5) 13 Possible shape of a skirt reportedly showing panache (5) 14 Had one with new extremely detailed openers (5) 16 Some breakthrou­ghs in part of a golf course (5) 18 Some breaks Alfred displayed when returning a bottle… (5) 20 … happen to be seen with a little Médoc curiously enough (5) 25 The least mature gents you upset (8) 26 US soldier in a rustic vehicle going west? Very sad! (6) 27 Let bee out, and another little creature (6) 28 Ring ding arrangemen­t that’s crushing (8)

DOWN

1 Unorthodox priest showing a sign of rank (6) 2 It’s out-and-out, but a sole alternativ­e (8) 3 Raise one’s glass to a little Amaretto, a starter for the party (5) 4 Part of the book some may find extreme (5) 5 Say it’s complete (5) 6 Quiet stream, yet sharp and strident (6) 7 Grand gig, possibly, yet tedious! (8) 15 Greets someone with greetings! (8) 17 Places for growing fruit or beet vegetables (8) 19 A tense developmen­t in an American house (6) 21 Marriages between groups of workers (6) 22 I don’t believe it! Not in our lifetimes at least! (5) 23 Gets a change of a place for acting (5) 24 One in a flight with Air TS possibly (5)

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