Crossword for Sun, 2/Jan/2022

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Across
1: Tender translator of runes (5)

4: Stormy Toccata in A might be best music for one in this state. (9)

8: Furniture style improper for formality (7)

9: Dilapidated city slum without question a source of sectariansim. (7)

11: Poles suffer internally - they're hard (5)

13: Non-discounted rate for newly split grain (4,5)

14: Dating from birth in South African province (5)

15: Sort of collection to compose print (7)

16: Final recipient of product ensured indiscreetly. (3, 4)

18: Gulf expressed in certain letters (5)

20: Director Michael Festers goes back in closet (9)

22: Gutter seamstress (5)

23: Legendary rich guy gets called, then folds (7)

24: Watch, say (7)

27: Exploits, in Time, founder and glow cold (9)

28: The lowest point in a dire section (5)
Down
1: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

2: Fixes price and French proof of sale (7)

3: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

4: Cloth arrived by air after 50 hours (9)

5: Adds money owed to the government in hearing (5)

6: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

7: Exciting moment, actor as reviewer (11)

10: Skier's heart rivals climbers (5)

11: Crazy to clean sons in awful mess (11)

12: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

15: Symbol of hierarchy to church holds no value (5,4)

17: Hum like a bee? (5)

19: It's not the editor in chief that looked threatening (7)

21: Do as I say in short retreat (5)

25: Sounds like a bright child (3).

26: In fear of wheat head (3)




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