Crossword for Fri, 18/Aug/2017

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Across
1: This is the scene as represented in meetings with spirits (7)

4: Room for traffic light behind church (7)

8: Base of trap beyond 1999 (7)

10: Rohmer hiding unit of Resistance (3)

11: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)

12: Overseer required because of handle turning (7)

13: St. Louis primarily consuming unrefined pastry (7)

14: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)

15: Long Rhine sequence in Wagner's work (9)

17: Call to drink like feeding ducks? (7,2)

20: Period email feature (3)

22: Look into deed, if I certify structure (7)

23: Kidnaps sailors swimming around the Channel (7)

24: Inactive side (3)

25: Choose to take the top off (3)

26: Pitman's state goddess (7)

27: Refined women suppressing desires, principally for boys (7)

28: Picks up job applicant documents (7)
Down
1: Deck out detective, putting pants on backwards (5,2)

2: Prizes plug swamps (7)

3: Male meandering in back of sedan burned 'Sugar' (7)

4: Deliver a sweetener to mix with your date? (5,4,4)

5: Spot stick-in-the-mud Republican with fan (7)

6: Beethoven's first love - sculptor or composer (7)

7: Novel payment dominating class (7)

9: Teen unclothes poorly dressed diners (13)

16: Well-brewed litre of this is a symbol of Irish pride. (7)

17: Filled in and served cheese? (7)

18: Journey to get crude oil in capital (7)

19: Editor wearing trousers meets word purists (7)

20: The ornamentation, I hesitate to say, is fitting. (7)

21: Tutus can serve to conceal Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, say (7)




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