Crossword for Mon, 22/Apr/2024

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Across
1: Hellish painter spoke piffle (5)

4: sliced again with cuter swing (5)

9: West's last: bottom spade, perhaps (5)

10: Syrian mother with a part in a play (9)

11: Tweak with wrong end of a pin (3)

12: Conclude a recitation off-key (11)

14: Encircle waffle (5)

15: Aliens' organization trailed by very important rebel (9)

16: Junior officer finds badly burnt seal (9)

19: Expose the French heavy weight (3,2)

21: I see marks on jumbled party favors (11)

22: Sound of river crossing (3)

24: Kills wild cries for incidentals (9)

26: MS. found in hothouse (5)

27: Sigh audibly about fool giving lip (5)

28: Clean air makes Australia singular (5)
Down
1: Dont declare relay equipment (5)

2: Fell limply and quietly in a squalid area extremely exhausted (7)

3: The rope got twisted by a shrub (3-4)

4: Bloody bored inside (3)

5: Sound practical perception is a normal feeling (11)

6: Film after set back, is more sensitive (7)

7: Mean to declare how old you are (7)

8: Stuffed 05 before a 10 (9)

13: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

14: Navaho sing of Five Rings coming clean (6,3)

17: Filled in and served cheese? (7)

18: Left out cheese for parasites (7)

19: Lion devouring poor shot in part of Africa (7)

20: Quiver made from wild elm root (7)

23: Measure action to follow (5)

25: Begin suspecting like you're clever (3)




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