Crossword for Thu, 16/Feb/2023

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Across
1: Utter poppycock! He was a Dutch painter (5)

3: One making a mess is resentful oaf, per Rev. Spooner (9)

8: Circles back in reel (5)

10: Standard position to loudly follow employees. (9)

11: 28 Invitation for man to get a cent on November 5? (5,3,3,3)

12: Odds of niece being born (3)

13: Location of cheating, fiercer gender (4,9)

16: Swings needing repair by unknown stock gauge (4,4,5)

21: Chain some; cuff objectors (3)

22: One Miss Horn takes a tumble with guys having outlaw spirits (11)

24: Remote and barbarous Irish school (5,4)

25: A garden ornament makes men go mad (5)

27: Tess spied wrinkled skirts (9)

28: Talk about a set of stores (5)
Down
1: One may be transported by this kiss, it's said (3)

2: Demonstrated the way in which to keep poles apart (5)

3: Headlight providing well-to-do person a start for high level flight (7)

4: Turncoat's quality: amoral heart (7)

5: Oriental festival on the first of November (7)

6: Groom and a bride -- utterly thoughtless (5-4)

7: Big affectionate bears blunder (5)

9: Film relay got mixed up (5)

11: Silver inside for each calling device (5)

14: Lived in whirlpool I bathed in (9)

15: In retrospect, sex provided relief for cravings (5)

17: Some freezing? (7)

18: Talked about an urban area in the NW (7)

19: Sterne's novel settlers (7)

20: Making out but not frosting (5)

21: Transgression if turning end in Marseille (5)

23: Black boy twice contracted virus (5)

26: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)




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