Crossword for Tue, 11/Jul/2017

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Across
1: One hundred-odd bits of bombs in some projectiles initially (5)

5: Eat late, taking in a floozie's new business (5-2)

8: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)

9: Questionable realtor robs preacher (4,7)

11: Sibling rivalry's beginning - worry about it (7)

12: Shorten a game (7)

13: Try to deny yod is a vowel intrinsically (7)

15: In my greed I blessed food (7)

17: Throws out the pressman returning to play sport (7)

19: Run amok while covered in red snack food (7)

21: 'Inane' is not the same as 'inane' (7)

23: Watch, say (7)

25: Thirteen broken adzes repaired (6,5)

26: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

27: Appears that fine car is elevated (5,2)

28: Firm rear end (5)
Down
1: Drunk, I'm one hunk of beef in bed (7)

2: Making Athenian weaver drink an informal toast (7,2)

3: Indolence evident in Rowes Lothario (5)

4: Box put on line for bird (7)

5: Identical covering for pitcher and handle (7)

6: Fruit taken in in inn (9)

7: Have sheriff's helpers joined Nazi police (7)

10: Bloody bored inside (3)

14: Green coat for Italian composer and Spanish painter (9)

16: Taking the future into consideration, Chaney acquires farmstead (4-5)

17: Confederate poet returned with rather less sparkle (7)

18: Play faster in last 3/4 of piece with bass held backward (5,2)

19: Tan Olympian Clarkes sound asleep? (7)

20: Turncoat's first motive for disloyalty (7)

22: Sort of uninitiated cheat (3)

24: Dispatches last bits following Saturday (5)




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