Crossword for Sun, 19/Jan/2020

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Across
1: Record Buttrose with acidity in her final judgment (7)

5: We blame knitter for small woolly jumper (3-4)

9: Places and composition? (9)

10: Norse gentleman? Not exactly. (5)

12: Oriental talc dispenser deserves acclaim (5)

13: Heads appearing strange in distorting lens (7)

15: Dine out and stop being vague (13)

18: Thinks about frolicking like she's a sitcom actress (6,7)

19: Turncoat's first motive for disloyalty (7)

21: True side (5)

23: Flower festival is pointless (5)

25: Underworld biggie (and chief stoolie) is a rich and powerful person (9)

27: Americans look for no revolution (7)

28: A sign Tommy's upset about patrol leader (7)

Down
1: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

2: Mousy girlfriend loses head and bellybutton (5)

3: Clearances for the first couple of characters to find answers. (11)

4: Overcome by disappointment from the rare bonk going awry (11)

5: The time before the first woman (3)

6: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

7: Record left by teacher in Siam (5)

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

11: Leaving firm when dating (5,6)

13: 27-across about starting off 1-down world unconditionally (2,3,2,4)

14: Seduce husband-to-be in parlor (7, 4)

16: Small piece of fish (3)

17: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

20: Englishman opening a can to dine at home (3,2)

22: Pitch out heartlessly the cards. (5)

24: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

25: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

26: Thumb Drum? (3)





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