Crossword for Mon, 25/Sep/2023

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Across
1: Dog leaps in puddles (7)

4: Dragging endless returns from a tightwad (7)

8: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

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

10: Noise heard and used in tennis? (7)

11: Popular book impounded by British police after revolution (7)

13: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

14: Backblock not all there (3)

16: Again, make fast about dead heat (5)

17: One who regrets following initial tendencies is increasingly sincere (5)

18: Control escape (3)

19: Rascal and wuss taking week off (3)

20: Warned of related crackpot (7)

22: Company strongly recommend: after first scolding, apply the whip! (7)

24: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

26: Heavy metal group X (4)

27: They say he trembles before the eastern lords. (7)

28: Island captured by lunatic exists for one turbulent decade (7)
Down
1: Downright fine (5)

2: Sadly curtail urge for land cultivation (11)

3: Far out, man, to rile someone who tells cats what to do (9)

4: Cheyenne Mountain installation produces radon mixture (5)

5: Little weight spoils head honcho in sophisticated secondary institute (7,6)

6: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

7: Incorrectly read pitch for a song (4,5)

9: Challenge the bench in retaliation. (13)

12: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)

13: Captures openings (9)

15: Giant reptiles make a racket and love southern gold, but principally really stink! (9)

21: Sharp guys: failures with energy (5)

23: Fairs with examples of sex positions (5)

25: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)




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