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ACROSS
1 A useless editor’s shunned (7) 5 Concerned with a child’s explanations (7) 9 King, consumed by immoral acts, collapses (5) 10 Specified a pudding, initially? Tart (9)
11 Held in wind — ruder sound (10) 12 Contend with wife’s opinion (4) 14 Diamonds free in Cambridgeshire city?
Not by mistake (12) 18 Exchange broken cast-iron oven (12) 21 Leaders of your little gang unfortunately turning nasty (4) 22 Amount for magic elixir about right (10) 25 Resilience after 51 goes and daughter enters home (9) 26 Half-heartedly shout downstairs (5)
27 Unusual seaside problem (7) 28 Lieutenant in complete retreat (7) DOWN
1 Fool is last to get help (6) 2 They possess things boy wanted — rest oddly ignored (6) 3 Detectives caught Edward subsequent to six balls being found (10) 4 Charlie Brown was this stressed (5) 5 Stand for the Queen, lifting gift (9) 6 Passionate, temperamental woman’s upset (4)
7 Got confused on a bidet (8) 8 Small fish approaches thus crab moves (8) 13 Approving high value of bra (10) 15 Protection money? (9) 16 Conservative scoundrel embarrassed after nothing happened (8) 17 Hammered nails, say, getting criticism (8) 19 Flower girl (6)
20 Solution from politicians we rejected (6)
23 Force former lover to leave state (5) 24 Concept I adored? Not quite (4)