Crossword for Mon, 1/Jan/2024

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Across
1: Make known one pound increase after high school (7)

4: Mixed race had become a farce (7)

8: Ministers ordain art evil? I doctor a reversal (13)

10: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)

11: Model spoken about is reserved (5)

13: Retro gents in exotic parks (5)

15: Burdened young man with couple of encumbrances (5)

17: Ensemble originally formed with ocarina, cello, theremin, euphonium, and tabla (5)

18: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

19: Neither's partner participated in an orchestra (3)

20: Theme eradicated partly by an eastern ruler (5)

21: Gulf expressed in certain letters (5)

22: Leaders of South Korea in disgrace suffer slippages (5)

23: Eat away at verse after initial hesitation (5)

24: You audibly ram partner (3)

25: Opening event in cruise: Iran art display (7-6)

27: What's left of reckless desire to get closer to you (7)

28: Following unsullied rise, Edward broke out (7)
Down
1: With Starr finally out, Hyde's plan simply loses traction in a way (11)

2: Claim agent has vision (5)

3: Sent one page rewritten in military lingo (11)

4: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)

5: Rise as in throw, perhaps, showing fitness to fly (13)

6: Actual air of confusion calculating insurance premiums (9)

7: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

9: Get the wrong idea, damn it, distressed about breaks (13)

12: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

14: Inspects old radical for a moment (5, 6)

16: Heard songs about milk and cheese and buns? (9)

24: Big Bird and Ernie auditioning after Sesame Street ends (5)

25: See, you are a cad. (3)

26: Odds of niece being born (3)




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