Crossword for Sun, 28/May/2023

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Across
1: Annoying ad for toaster design? (3-2)

4: Mix tequila? Be fair! (9)

8: One hundred-odd bits of bombs in some projectiles initially (5)

9: Ice cream containers to Georgia in wagon (9)

11: Fashion designer going round cold part of church (7)

14: Reportedly burned beet (5)

15: Employ new, rare chemical compound (7)

16: One providing funds for last one in debt (7)

18: Covert watchers gawk, at last captivated by temptresses (7)

20: Gingrich said Reagan should not be charged. (7)

22: Backroom houses last component of engine (5)

23: Cavities from wrong practices (7)

24: English painter whose work is arresting ... (9)

25: An Indian princess fled east repeatedly (5)

27: Shortens break, going back to arouse with comedy bit (9)

28: Brand on utilitarian stocking: 'Krispy Kreme' (5)
Down
1: Most important rule, they say (9)

2: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

3: Nightwear and jersey top added in afterthought (3)

4: Coral Sea, perhaps, without a fish (7)

5: Drunkard turns up near beach, reversing new habit, to sleep fitfully (4,3,4)

6: Weapons in a womans speech (11)

7: Belated top-and-tailing to gladden one's heart (5)

10: There was little space in the satanic heresy. (5)

12: Enticements disrupt mental rules (11)

13: Exciting moment, actor as reviewer (11)

17: Reborn near different perfume (9)

19: Get rid of Bush (5)

20: Sterne's novel settlers (7)

21: Come round again about dog (5)

25: Road without a pole (4)

26: Sister gets nothing, we hear (3)




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