Crossword for Sat, 25/Feb/2023

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Across
1: Risks making Chinese detective dry up (7)

4: Religious school uniting you and god (7)

8: Lunch time eating: an annoyance for figure (7)

10: Sun god, after climbing once more, falls (7)

11: Inmate Ian playing dead (9)

12: Physician that is right is less interesting (5)

13: A key passage (5)

14: Call for help oddly stops (3)

15: Bite and flip over -- one way to win a wrestling match (3)

17: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

19: Sounds like a wolf on the coast (3)

21: Globe's automobile award (5)

23: English lead getting into the pants of guys (5)

24: Supply weapons to a fool? No! Its a South American mammal (9)

25: Unruly hair in hood; ugh (7)

26: A murder suspect, one hears? (7)

27: Most capacious, having little and small in great combination (7)

28: Exotic cider as cocktail (7)
Down
1: Suspiciously detain cad -- he may be trying to get into the house (9)

2: Uncovered references containing name for certain flowers (7)

3: Shocking situations, losing first of criminal's footwear (7)

4: Americans look for no revolution (7)

5: On your feet! (8,5)

6: Language - one with a Latin derivation (7)

7: Oilwell fireman Red's commercial run (5)

9: Mild guess: I die reassembling a nasty weapon (6,7)

16: through old player? (9)

18: One providing funds for last one in debt (7)

19: Let bank arrange cover (7)

20: Complains to Sammy re cast (7)

22: Ricola melting to carbon, driven by heat (7)

23: Transfer from Delaware to California (5)




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