Crossword for Sun, 28/Jan/2018

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Across
1: List of members includes old chick's Dad (7)

5: Religious school uniting you and god (7)

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

9: Sounds like a bright child (3).

11: To confuse, immerse a priest in drink. (5)

12: To get revenge, we tail a terrorist hiding in retreat (9)

15: Drank up in station (5)

17: See why a convertible is nonsense (7)

18: Nothing virile about British actor (7)

21: One who lives under bridges and eats billy goats and fish (5)

22: Make a deep impression, bound by ties initially thought to be most vexatious (9)

23: Trust woman (5)

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

26: Arranged date in Cairo means extermination (11)

27: Bomb compartment - note damaged weapon (7)

28: Kidnaps sailors swimming around the Channel (7)
Down
1: He explored star (7,6)

2: Upset top duo; I went and confessed (5,2,2,2)

3: Short time for the Irish (5)

4: In a dream I venerate clothing (7)

5: Get zany, swimming in exotic river (7)

6: Hear Native American appeal (3)

7: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

10: We hear you require complete articles for this royal thriller. (7,6)

13: Skipped the French army physical training (5)

14: Stimulant produced as choir paid off (11)

16: Your leg? (5)

19: Not being particular, Xena and I moved to Connecticut (7)

20: Wine from Greece brought back in canisters (7)

23: Mrs Schmidt's penny is fake (5)

25: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)

26: Going after the final piece of puzzle for a very long time (3)




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