Crossword for Fri, 15/Sep/2017

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Across
1: Church assembly contributing to heresy? No dice! (5)

4: One country or another entertains Jolson (9)

8: Polygraph unexpectedly traps vandal (3)

9: Messages transmitted about a mile (1-4)

10: Got excited by unusual tulip (3,2)

11: Man, having taken a dose of LSD, is overcome by dread in a world of shadows (9)

12: Before time like an aristocrat? (5)

14: 'Strike!' the French yell (4,3)

15: Unknown little princess turning food with tongue (7)

18: Tarpon's head is covered by more opulent kind of scale (7)

20: Al Fresco is to do our cooking (7)

21: Unscripted part for head librarian (2,3)

23: Smear record colour - that one (9)

24: Prepare canvas with a colour like red, blue or yellow? (5)

25: . . . or working with one group of stars (5)

26: Thumb Drum? (3)

27: Mikes good tackling ice tower (6,3)

28: Padre's sensibly covering attire (5)
Down
1: At first, Sonny and Cher having bizarre duel with one providing slots? (9)

2: Crazy to clean sons in awful mess (11)

3: An exceptionally attractive person may be met aboard (9)

4: Worker in new data capture firm (7)

5: Speak about bad deal in time for bargains (4,3)

6: April keeps providing material for a poet (5)

7: Currently well-supplied? (5)

13: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

16: North wounded in action and removed from power (9)

17: Dickensian Iron Age? (4,5)

19: Movie star kind of hot for date (7)

20: Ejection of Jack from medieval competition (7)

21: Thick maple growing wild (5)

22: With a big smile, catch a Royal fish (5)




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