Crossword for Thu, 18/Apr/2019

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Across
1: Cut corners and omit taking minutes (5)

4: Brief inclination to include likely candidates (5,4)

9: Publish and be exhausted (4,3)

10: Feminine articles put in case (7)

11: Uncouth chaps met Engel under stress. (4,9)

12: Interprets, for the audience, the woodwinds (5)

14: Tipsy couple's getting intimate (5, 2)

16: A month's work for a denizen of the deep (7)

18: Scandinavian boatmen or sea-faring characters (5)

20: Unfortunate rot in republic is everlasting (13)

24: Warned of related crackpot (7)

25: Albatross, seals cluster here! (4,3)

27: Simple addition in cult film (4,5)

28: Stir outspoken 3-down resident, usually (5)

Down
1: Bend in the middle and wind back (3)

2: Drive an unusual visitor (7)

3: Tine expert no good (5)

4: Snarling assistant to devil worshipers (9)

5: Headless rodent left by bird (5)

6: Measure of heat in the empty room (5)

7: Extreme aims voiced (7)

8: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

11: Conclude a recitation off-key (11)

13: Essential part of Cayce's power! (3)

14: Victor Norman William (9)

15: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

17: Trips around Central Europe for arms parts (6)

19: Yes, MBAs worked with a diplomatic staff (7)

21: More appealing to snub royalty? (5)

22: Made new, breaking away from tired ideas (5)

23: Teaching assistants run into hospital facility for shocker (5)

26: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)





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