Crossword for Sun, 26/Jan/2020

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Across
2: Try place for field event (4,3)

5: Lightened up, taking part in strip-tease dance (5)

8: Privy to accessibility (11)

10: Aliens set off (3)

11: 'Gigolo, Inc.' lothario sporting primitive G-string (9)

13: Remove bombast from French painter? (5)

14: In all, just a little peak. (3)

15: E.g., told story about cave-men (11)

16: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

20: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

22: Mister T ignored Scrooge (5)

23: Defiant call for change holds up addition to building (9)

24: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

25: Enticements disrupt mental rules (11)

27: Appeal, as I kneel, revealing special light in my eyes? (5)

28: Underworld boss can be found among crazy sun-worshippers (7)
Down
1: Bends clasps (7)

2: Sounds like a bright child (3).

3: Ancient history part is excessively trimmed (7)

4: Logical oil Polish chap applied (13)

5: Men caught in vile deed should be 'fixed' (7)

6: Dexterity is an insult, so we hear (7)

7: Sid sets off then stops (7)

9: Free for all by lack of padlocked freight compartments (2,5,6)

12: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

16: Mug returns to 100 degrees, causing an ulcer. (7)

17: Places for vacations, quiet intervals or breaks (7)

18: Identify damage found in back of the ark (7)

19: Sausages from a Greek island (7)

20: Throw out faulty nib (3)

21: Lets stand on a cowboy hat (7)

26: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)




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