Crossword for Sun, 29/Jan/2023

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Across
2: Brando rinsing out identification tools (8,5)

8: Sibling rivalry's beginning - worry about it (7)

9: Aspirant describing old road movies? (7)

10: Support a deranged original (11)

12: Road without a pole (4)

13: Something lacking in brief season (9)

15: Gantry in Hilton Hotel, Mermaid Beach (5)

17: Johnston's desires (5)

19: Grasp a rag usefully wrapping vegetable (9)

22: Clothilda is carrying a parcel (3)

24: Thirteen broken adzes repaired (6,5)

26: Paul wears shirt the wrong way to provide shoulder covering (7)

27: Greek character opposed to red wine (7)

28: Gradually reduce European Community requisitions for playback devices (4,9)
Down
1: Rejections concern enthusiasts (7)

2: Lignite with low carbon content (5,4)

3: Against that terrible, consuming war (7)

4: Guard enthralled by desperately urgent sad song (5)

5: I am to beat urge (7)

6: Dodgy queen is tender (5)

7: More stable, or slide around (7)

11: Flower, large one, set up outside (5)

14: Troubled tenor with a transposition (2,3,5)

16: Arsenals periodicals (9)

17: Supremely clever stories, overlaid with humor (7)

18: More delicate - cast off bluster (7)

20: A grape drink for Edwin emptied inside (3,4)

21: Burning body to face solar-powered clock (7)

23: Call girl sting nabs head of Moral Majority (5)

25: Rascally repeat? (5)




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