Crossword for Sun, 23/Jul/2017

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Across
1: Revolution -- or small-time? (5)

3: Is it a chop that's nutty or a nut that's chopped? (9)

7: Begin new life (5)

9: Turn in diet at night (9)

11: Single parliamentary representative on the Spanish drive (5)

12: God, assuming olden right, creates yellow weed (9)

13: Swimming-pool man to take off? (7)

15: Little Richard was follwed by aliens, being bowed at the knees. (7)

17: Sissy's fabric cleaner suggested by the Rev. Spooner (7)

19: Yeller eats two steak bones as Elly May's pet (7)

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

22: Little Tom's pot (5)

24: Flirting could end with marriage (9)

25: I grumble about supermodel Campbell (5)

27: Exploits, in Time, founder and glow cold (9)

28: Fruit found in Carmel only (5)
Down
1: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

2: Airship loose after opening bombardment (5)

3: Cocktail set king supporting the flag (4,3)

4: Layperson to straighten us clear (7)

5: A quaintly pleasing accent (5)

6: Wild thing sure is greediest (9)

8: All snog, exchanging quantities of fluid (7)

10: Leda overtaken by frenzied satyr -- perhaps debauched? (3,6)

11: Is Asian holy man sinning in Asian capital? (9)

14: A language one may read about (9)

16: Yellow fowl (7)

18: Editor wearing trousers meets word purists (7)

19: Retinue and company again go round, get back (7)

21: . . . or working with one group of stars (5)

23: Giant fish (5)

26: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)




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