Crossword for Sat, 2/Sep/2017

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Across
1: Reunite scattered entourage (7)

4: The cow may do this in the local veterinary yard (5)

8: Come back after date full of zest for political system (9)

10: Cut up after having gambled, with death perhaps? (5)

11: Unsettling sound from eagle's nest (5)

12: Yours truly, with Bill, tossed oil at Captain Steroid (9)

13: Leon's accepting prohibition from country (7)

15: Cancelled requirement to carry gun (7)

16: Cuts back small curls (7)

18: Desires taking time and interest for musicians (7)

21: Suddenly lots and lots of black reptiles devouring zebra's head (9)

22: Worry about Democrat's chief staff group (5)

24: . . . before the last apprentice is put in the ground (5)

25: Conductor taking opera to Northern Ireland twice (9)

27: Highways or turning spots (5)

28: A poor horse to run into a revised composition (7)
Down
1: Bloody bored inside (3)

2: Counter of delay! (5)

3: Central matter for physicists luncheon: rocks releasing hydrogen (7)

4: Grave study: code-breaking? (13)

5: Bald guy squashes insect (7)

6: Increases scales; ate sloppily (9)

7: Concluded that it was indeed the French nobleman (7)

9: Ministers ordain art evil? I doctor a reversal (13)

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

14: Radical is forced into deal with legal representative (9)

16: Punk brains a teenage witch (7)

17: Mother starts zipping up red kimono after old Polish dance (7)

19: To copy a brief thank-you means keyboard work (7)

20: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

23: Physician that is right is less interesting (5)

26: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)




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