Crossword for Mon, 17/Aug/2020

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Across
1: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

3: Black arts and demons concerned with Homer's issue? (4,7)

9: Canadian water ordered for regal tea-break (5,4,4)

10: Stick house (5)

11: The Lilliputians' citizen army? (9)

12: Trap with hands? (3)

13: Chain some; cuff objectors (3)

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

17: Game for drunkard (5)

18: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

19: Inactive side (3)

21: Loaded bloke swallowed third of a slab (9)

25: Arenas almost filling with the hooter (5)

26: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

27: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

28: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)

Down
1: Put out a journal in a foreign language (7)

2: Name assumed to be no dupe's my disguise (9)

3: See goat leap high for an insect (9)

4: Discharge space-talk (5)

5: Most distant area of open land has street on both sides (9)

6: Imported food injected with nitrogen (5)

7: Vapour in the street the final morning (5)

8: Explosive device held by one failed candidate (7)

14: Ms Starr has a gun, a mere toy (9)

15: Bird accompanying gangster or outlaw (5,4)

16: Be quick to make appearance with instrument (4,5)

17: Beams in reverse alphabetical order (7)

20: To leaf I turn, becoming leafy (7)

22: Follow in broken suede shoes (5)

23: A girl in distress, sought by knights (5)

24: Saw palm down (5)





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