Crossword for Mon, 24/Apr/2023

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Across
1: I hear not many insulted a real McCoy (7)

4: Perhaps stonefish can be found in shamrock code. (7)

8: He appeared to cross-breed elms. (9)

10: Neither partner finds way out of country (3)

11: Invention to trick four into a stupor (11)

13: Drawing, for example, a bit of a cartoon (3)

14: Nothing changes in reproductive organs (7)

16: So disgusting no-one takes part? (7)

17: Judges playing conkers? (7)

18: Sour substance made from grape plant and fish (7)

19: What's left when you burn the tree (3)

20: Thats sensible; has the eagle perhaps landed? (4-2-5)

23: Clothilda is carrying a parcel (3)

24: Welsh resort - and no dull resort (9)

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

28: Otherwise angered by a fencers call (2,5)
Down
1: Mink, for one, may fly when theres trouble (3)

2: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

3: Peg's put on jeans, and airs (9)

4: Hazardous emanation from river used by a crime boss (5)

5: Privy to accessibility (11)

6: Hound British regime in India about Gautama's original tree (9)

7: Ever-practical, Mr. Vader keeps own little piggy (4-2-5)

9: Sounds like a bright child (3).

11: Orchestra I'm reorganizing for certain conductor (11)

12: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

15: Proof of intoxication (9)

16: Apprentice number six, to Spanish aunt, extremely tentative (9)

21: Johnston's desires (5)

22: Road without a pole (4)

25: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)

26: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)




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