Crossword for Thu, 21/Mar/2019

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Across
1: Don't indicate so much that's futile (9)

5: Some barbarians turned up for money (5)

8: Who applies pitch to a snake-rope? (9)

10: Best Southern general retreats riding cross-country (5)

11: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

12: Fish in sea initially react to heat, perhaps (5)

14: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)

15: Tim ate one unsavory ape (7)

16: Crime's delays? (4-3)

18: Cover-up file conceals, ultimately, wrongdoing by one female (3,4)

20: Shes said to be funambulists best friend (7)

21: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)

22: Relieves each emergency service (5)

23: Animal hiding in abattoir (3)

24: Plastic shelf for meat (5)

26: Chinese are able to sound extremely subtle (9)

27: Wool is leading stocking fabric (5)

28: Family accounts (9)

Down
1: Person in a suit sporting ordinary flap (9)

2: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

3: Outrageous trio of Italians bursting in on divorcee and me (7)

4: Extend a term of imprisonment (7)

5: Odds of niece being born (3)

6: Unfortunate rot in republic is everlasting (13)

7: Was sick girl set up? (5)

9: Monarch met monarch in even open space for coin-operated machines (7,6)

13: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)

17: Leaving no trail, Penny and Les hid in the middle of Sussex (9)

19: 'Beat it, mister!' said con man (7)

20: Elsa ran frantically for store (7)

21: Very bad, but permissible, to dismiss counsel, ultimately (5)

25: Grant loud colour (3)





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