Crossword for Thu, 29/Apr/2021

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Across
1: Rear oat variety as a way to break up the soil (7)

4: Prattle about nothing, meaning spear (7)

7: Asian capital managed by board (7)

9: Religious observance improves personality a little (7)

11: Adult party to entertain disheartened women (5-2)

12: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

13: Anger that is constraining response (3)

14: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)

17: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)

18: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

19: Incomplete raw data lies in largely unexplored regions (4,7)

21: Have bananas now (3)

22: Direct object (3)

23: Duck turning up initially looking like a Walt Disney animated goose (7)

25: Nits are possibly more unpleasant (7)

26: This would make me a lord (7)

27: Detains stranger as a substitute (7)

28: Dozens of sprites seen on Tuesday and Wednesday initially (7)
Down
1: Land filled with rain is OK (7)

2: Instrument on top of tree or shrub (5)

3: Approach hoist (3,2)

4: Accept amputation to carry on an affair (4,2,3)

5: Oscillating crystal perhaps not so rare (9)

6: Designed dashing ten-ton pick-up (3-5,5)

8: Let not passion sway philosophers (3-10)

10: Zoom back from the deeps (5)

15: Account for musical river having flowed uphill (9)

16: Mime, frolicking in small piece, quietly sparkled (9)

18: Demonstrated the way in which to keep poles apart (5)

20: Sausages from a Greek island (7)

23: and 15 Novel alternative excised from huge spits (5,12)

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




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