Crossword for Thu, 22/Jun/2023

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Across
1: The fathead cut down and then collapsed (7)

4: A child toils to produce poems (7)

8: Dead time after amusement in December (7)

10: There was little space in the satanic heresy. (5)

11: Hears rallies (5,2)

13: Dolly led runt astray (7)

14: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

15: Left with pal carrying new gold case (11)

17: Criticise a computer analysis of famous passage (6,5)

18: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

19: Hide the real solution (7)

21: Watch Obadiah attend to customers (7)

24: Robe's eyelet exposes more than fat (5)

25: Whip in swell company (7)

27: Vice exploits body cavities (7)

28: Errant son taking coin without permission (7)
Down
1: Bored after meals? (3,2)

2: Inactive side (3)

3: Kicks watercraft (5)

4: Changed musician not so offensively pious (13)

5: Can lot be plastered around the jug at night? (9)

6: Newsman Bradley accepts men, correct? (5)

7: Secret Service obtaining fast food for surveillance jobs (9)

9: Gradually reduce European Community requisitions for playback devices (4,9)

12: Church council regulation sounds like a big gun (5)

14: A cut back in brightly colored southern pastries (9)

15: Help stamp out leaflets (9)

16: Coal remaining at the end of a month (5)

20: Some kind of a nut with a foot problem (5)

22: Demonstrated the way in which to keep poles apart (5)

23: Release pressure after energy incident (5)

26: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)




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