Crossword for Sun, 2/Apr/2023

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Across
1: Starts to read each chapter after pausing for review (5)

4: Greenspan hugs former wife and the German control freak Haig (9)

8: Question number one (5)

9: Difficult newspaper or novel (4,5)

10: Directors said to be unamused. (5)

11: Authoritative feline vet, perhaps, spreading cure (9)

14: A charm won crookedly by cleaner (9)

15: Prom couple steals crown from teen dress up (5)

17: Check about a form of power (5)

18: Fruit taken in in inn (9)

19: Remember, mine cries in distress (9)

21: Big Bird: 'Apologies--getting a late start' (5)

22: Public school game on festive occasions (4,5)

25: Skin gash exists (5)

27: Smokey's threat turning up deep in northern parts (5,4)

28: Mystic eats piece of donut in ritual meal (5)
Down
1: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

2: A notable Jay Leno feature, 'Sensible Dishes' (9)

3: Boob implant cups: sad hoax in line with 15-down (8,3)

4: Residue has scattered (3)

5: Terrier shows how to stray (3)

6: Regretted backing up grasping tip of massive object (5)

7: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

10: Steer TS into alternative routes (4,7)

11: Circle-drawer combines with 27 to make direction card (7)

12: Napoleonic site on Web is reactionary, very likely (7)

13: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

16: Sadly, Tim agreed and left the country (9)

20: Bridge players under low deer (5)

23: Vicar regularly outdated technology (1.1.1.)

24: How to eat the heart of marsupial (3)

26: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)




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