Crossword for Wed, 22/Nov/2023

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Across
1: Falstaff's first clever lie (5)

3: Tender command (3)

5: Keep firm about the ring (5)

8: Declare leniency even heartless to be this! (7)

10: Help to lift weight - this might show how (7)

11: Teen unclothes poorly dressed diners (13)

13: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)

15: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

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

18: Cook small fish. (3)

19: Novel deviance in the movie? (5,2,6)

23: Opposite qualifier, back off at single error (7)

25: A fool, for instance, may use a very good spear (7)

26: Church assembly contributing to heresy? No dice! (5)

27: Take Chair in university (3)

28: This identifies the literary epic at the outset! (5)
Down
1: Castro led, granting that uprising (5)

2: English philosopher cured pig (5)

3: Robins knitting done by row (3,6)

4: Head of the Venetians bagging dead duck (5)

5: The man with lack of skill shows cruelty (13)

6: Song is a gas (3)

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

9: Free for all by lack of padlocked freight compartments (2,5,6)

12: Rigid body. (5)

13: Last brute buckles under counter arguments (9)

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

16: Ambush late-rising with auditors load (3,2,4)

20: Lists scoundrels (5)

21: Bar one not keeping heart of bargain (5)

22: She literally describes high society (5)

24: 23% of Scandinavians backing leaders (3)




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