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Genius crossword 406

A normal crossword where G is a definition in common

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Across

1 Example of fraud involving king and succession (6)

5 G may be reformed supremo, capturing hearts (8)

9 Bring on, for instance (8)

10 G’s person on panel missing start surrounded by drivers (6)

11 G’s quiet call about Gaelic (10)

12 Place for sitters as yet unfinished (4)

13 G - a city with millions taken in by rampant greed losing resistance (8)

16 Difficult - like a rhinoceros on heat, ultimately (6)

17 Angel fish must stifle fear occasional­ly (6)

19 Part of ship’s structure offering the last word in hammocks? (4-4)

21 Silly me - top’s come off enclosures (4)

22 Quiet prisoner upset a G (10)

25 Attire for internatio­nal after endless cycling (6)

26 A way sound waves generate shocks (8)

27 Frustrated marine salvage expert losing wife and disregardi­ng dangers? (8)

28 Secret court holding sole criminal (6)

Down

2 G’s essential to reality check (5)

3 Religious leaders’ writings should support current master (5) 4

Hobbles in, say, set up for a look (7)

5 Opening coming from Spooner’s Chinese spy? (7)

6 Compound lease (including a vacant garage) (7)

7 Expect to import Coors? Unlikely prediction here (9)

8 A Parisian engineer given a penalty for being crude (9)

14 G, hearing of hairstyle tied in knots (9)

15 Standard staff needed to support police HQ (9)

18 Use font, seeing bishop and note in altar space (7)

19 Man shortly to be surrounded by fish as source of fuel? (7)

20 Raising US intelligen­ce agents to keep month to get clean (7)

23 G is left in place, with nothing (5)

24 Reminder from head of government wearing nothing? (5)

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