Crossword for Sat, 28/Oct/2023

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Across
1: One who reads each consumer (7)

5: Meal for 4 divided by 50 (5)

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

10: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

11: Where Handel wrote short measure on organ (7)

12: Stayed only a moment at lewd Western with titillating beginning? Just the opposite! (5)

13: Believer with no head for bank job (5)

14: A legendary archer's in little Spanish Idaho town (9)

18: Decision tree's unusual goal: mirth? (9)

19: Quietly pulls electrical connectors (5)

20: On the torturous trail, seeking justice. (5)

23: Medicine was our connection, we hear (7)

25: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)

26: Put hot cocoa out for someone glued to the TV (5,6)

27: Old physician in sheltered church (5)

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

Down
1: Publicity about one expectant father, perhaps (5)

2: Quickly shoooting up, alien inside moving back and forth (9)

3: Massacre gives Serb leader mirth (9)

4: Lada, for example, gets favourite treatment for VIPs (3,6)

5: Initiate discovered in boffo underwear (5)

6: Defeated after losing leader, gets plastered (5)

7: Wander around stove (5)

8: Family accounts (9)

13: Actress Ann admits painting one's sorrow (9)

15: Coach mens school of North American Indians (9)

16: Record that it was to insult (2,3,4)

17: A state, see - one in America - one with an American capital (9)

21: Uncharacteristically, Dickenson pens uplifting romantic ballad (5)

22: Cruel to waste money (5)

23: Express joy in slaughter (5)

24: Damsels primarily enthralled by romances in forests (5)





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