Crossword for Sun, 28/May/2017

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Across
1: Skin gash exists (5)

4: Dealers left out of catalogues (9)

9: Ironically to the point (5)

10: Cad mad about Dutch port (9)

11: Bloody bored inside (3)

12: Conclude a recitation off-key (11)

14: Five Gaelic poems (5)

16: Quiet floor decoration is a sign of indifference (5)

18: They secure money for the government, so we hear (5)

21: Tine expert no good (5)

22: Pick up line for first man swinging both ways? (5,2,4)

24: Frost to cover the cake (3)

25: A democratic leadership, time after time, is a benefit (9)

27: Shy away from women's clothing (5)

28: Shout the chaps to initial therapy.(9)

29: Cut up after having gambled, with death perhaps? (5)
Down
1: Motorist to welcome hailing? (3-6)

2: A favourite car of Seattle natives. (11)

3: Woodland deity posed six months (5)

4: Elves distressed priests (7)

5: Ring twice in ramshackle tudor having no roof (7)

6: Maintenance with Jones family perhaps (7,2)

7: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

8: Monsieur is immersed in unspecified French river (5)

13: Stimulant produced as choir paid off (11)

15: Perhaps men sit and eat in a cafe (9)

17: Swine met end, tied and dyed (9)

19: Associate to give 25-down up, cryptically? (7)

20: Most distressing point about dead saint (7)

22: Imported food injected with nitrogen (5)

23: Monday spent in thought (5)

26: Compete with life in France (3)




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