Crossword for Sun, 25/Mar/2018

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Across
1: 'Rats!' snorted Dotty (7)

5: 'Inane' is not the same as 'inane' (7)

8: Bill board reflected family meal extra (5,6)

9: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

10: Stuffed 05 before a 10 (9)

12: First Lady's vocal projections (5)

13: Call girl sting nabs head of Moral Majority (5)

15: Name assumed to be no dupe's my disguise (9)

17: Energetically undid your toils (9)

20: Firm rear end (5)

21: After a second, whip and rip (5)

22: Moldering, moldering panhandler? (4,5)

24: Pass mould (3)

25: Thus might florin study a silly timekeeper (3-3,5)

27: They can't reproduce sounds like an operating system (7)

28: Tranquillises extremely senile escorts (7)
Down
2: Small piece of fish (3)

3: Relative clause ultimately adopted by the kind (5)

4: Place vermin's raised for new business venture (5-2)

5: Oblique demand for a new church (7)

6: No nuns die tormented by lewd insinuations. (9)

7: Pitchers were transported south (5)

8: Head of truly despicable fellow's horse (7)

9: A number seen having affair (9)

11: Fade over a tape, when edited (9)

14: Support caliph, ultimately; reflective quote is portentous (9)

16: Borderland has acting ruler (7)

18: Italian gentlemen's token or piece of silver (7)

19: The olde bull's last moo's for daffodils or buttercups, e.g. (7)

21: Rushes for middle of glossed lip (5)

23: Montana contract cut back (5)

26: Child is to depart, finally (3)




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