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4: English features of Italian glories (5)

6: Nice work - point out the beginning (9)

8: Bolt I have inserted in right frame (5)

10: Uncharacteristically, Dickenson pens uplifting romantic ballad (5)

12: Essay about one mathematical function in three volumes (7)

13: God, transforming first day into last night, was received (3)

14: Minor work taking half a month - an endless epistle (9)

16: Painter mentioned hidden burial (9)

19: Lick up pal (3)

21: Sounds like actor Stephen's a scavenger (7)

23: Speak slowly, with upward lilt at the beginning (5)

24: Very loud intrusion spoiled its cross words (5)

26: Someone in favour of wine in jolly good surroundings (9)

27: Fortunate brave gets a late start (5)

28: Tired Aussie died in an abattoir? (9)

2: Shocks friend overwhelmed by rude slap (7)

3: Rule for finding direction between-times? (5)

4: Song is a gas (3)

5: Publish and be exhausted (4,3)

6: Cake decoration methods essentially deleted from ancient Chinese book (5)

7: Oddly corny spot in tomb (5)

9: Belonging to you, is getting to me, Herb (5)

11: Cat, or what it does having lost its head (5)

15: Latin lives of Evita explained within (5)

16: I sent out a little map (5)

17: Craft, if employed in trade (7)

18: We would embrace tightly in marriage (7)

19: Jumped for something extremely loose-fitting (5)

20: Pivotal round total ultimately in par (5)

22: Appeal, as I kneel, revealing special light in my eyes? (5)

25: Find out scout (3)