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Across

1 You should go no farther than this to make it

blunt (3-3,5)

9 Amid confusion, baler turned out to be

excellent (9)

10 Lacking precision against fever (5)

11 Timothy denied entering town near

Manchester (4)

12 Is it choral, sort of dealing with past period?

(10)

14 Nothing little Katharine found to be

satisfactory (4)

15 Some things some male cyclists might have

to face (10)

19 Yours truly therefore with Leah becoming

very old person (10)

20 Slave-driver in parliament? (4)

21 Ignored pix that had suffered bleaching (10)

23 Most of wobbly food to set (4)

25 Virginia received poor service from lackey

(5)

27 Person from clan trims bean sprouts (9)

28 Not able to function at home although

legally capable (11)

Down

1 Person whose pretences are not to be taken

seriously (6,5)

2 Act on a revolving stage (4)

3 Make up story about material that had been

taken in (9)

4 Crease left in twisted tape (5)

5 In heraldic green Edward turned in (8)

6 Game to go along with (3)

7 Clean space in closet in North America (8)

8 Zookeeper expected all lions initially to have

great enthusiasm (4)

13 One of motorcyclist’s overheads? (5-6)

16 Aid nipper damaging water carrier (9)

17 Oust, remove one asking earnestly (8)

18 Like Don is strangely impractical (8)

21 Concrete part of top avenue (4)

22 Mother embracing second person in

Provence, that’s a fact (5)

24 Said leading tennis player to give way (4)

26 Garland coming from Algeria at regular

intervals (3)