Crossword for Sun, 11/Feb/2024

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Across
1: Deep sleep, father recalled, is fitting (7)

4: Pitman's state goddess (7)

7: Family member suppresses a temptation to go head-to-foot naked (2,7)

8: English philosopher in rasher lot? (5)

10: The state of a fresh garment (3,6)

12: Making out and squealing after the top comes off? (5)

13: Moving haltingly, stopping short of the end (about a foot), by sundown (9)

15: Test limits of sexologist in assignation (5)

16: Warning! The French return to take up weapons.(5)

19: Cloth arrived by air after 50 hours (9)

22: Change at noon (5)

23: Tending in Southern California to fight straw man? (9)

25: Spring water coming up natural, simple, and fresh (5)

26: Wake up Hoad, beaten in motorists facility (9)

27: Pack animal swallows a red candy (7)

28: Tutus can serve to conceal Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, say (7)
Down
1: Double profit repeatedly (5,3,5)

2: Hes happy to wait for the doctor! (7)

3: Waves of laborers reported (5)

4: A language one may read about (9)

5: Finest tree house exhibits gist of problem (7)

6: Correcty confused city ref (7)

9: ...near fishing boats stocked with cold bait (5,8)

11: Clown with a tail. (3)

14: Castle ran out of ones forebears (9)

17: Artists workshop E. Lear bowled over with it (7)

18: Trimmed complicated test (7)

20: Left out cheese for parasites (7)

21: Freshen the atmosphere (3)

24: A large sailor's arresting cry (5)




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