Crossword for Mon, 11/Mar/2019

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Across
2: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

4: Delilah, practically bare, cuts hair! (9)

9: How the obese appear to hunt? (4,5)

10: Host seems clever, off and on (5)

11: Dear spouse that was thoughtful (9)

13: Chatter about some pay-back (3)

14: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

15: Feeling threatened, suggested concealing identity (11)

16: Bend in Pennsylvania court case related to revered founder (11)

20: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

22: One politician's a brat (3)

23: Secret art dashed Tennessees desire (9)

24: Troubled tenor with a transposition (2,3,5)

26: Somehow it is clear and practical (9)

27: Heels were repaired in another place (9)

28: Song is a gas (3)
Down
1: Depressions beginning to vex bowling lanes (7)

2: Air transport for the lumberjack? (7)

3: Mere chance of depression interrupting peace (11)

4: Booster involving risk brought to a halt early form of Voyager (7)

5: Trimmed complicated test (7)

6: Draw the knot (3)

7: Half-open tomb put in a shrouded form (7)

8: Deepest swimming is totally immersed (7)

12: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

16: Monkey around, at best (7)

17: Drunk rises, holding tubular headgear (3,4)

18: Again bring food to certain soldier (7)

19: Grass present round container (7)

20: He stirs up a one who had referred to him in the past. (7)

21: Melodic rearrangement of asymmetrically split second part (7)

25: Famous gardens said to move one to speak. (3)




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