Crossword for Thu, 30/Nov/2017

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Across
1: Heretic repented, holding tissue (5)

4: Cutthroat congressman's back in lifeless Ohio primary (9)

8: Slimeball guards existence in French refuge (7)

10: Jewish leader in a bar tossed out pig meat (7)

12: Circle-drawer combines with 27 to make direction card (7)

13: Greek city - in the Adriatic or in Thessaly (7)

14: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

15: Black arts and demons concerned with Homer's issue? (4,7)

16: The star of 'Ellen' has at folks with substandard morals (11)

21: Scale Ten after taxes (3)

23: Batsmen trading one who may be a winner? (4,3)

24: Ordering a meal is causing uneasiness (7)

25: Elsa ran frantically for store (7)

26: Quickly assemble dry pail (7)

27: Increases scales; ate sloppily (9)

28: Accidentally unsex group with ties (5)
Down
1: Small boat from County Clare, possibly (7)

2: Those who study bugs' motion got less confused (13)

3: We blame knitter for small woolly jumper (3-4)

5: Ways in which Mandela's party holds first equitable positions (7)

6: A murder suspect, one hears? (7)

7: Ordered hoop to conserve mass and energy (5)

9: Teaching assistants run into hospital facility for shocker (5)

11: Swings needing repair by unknown stock gauge (4,4,5)

17: Lion man outraged to be so-called (7)

18: Call on telephone about lock (7)

19: Counter of delay! (5)

20: Sailor to criticise abundant 19-across source (7)

22: Siamese toolmakers reportedly in colorful clothing (3-4)

23: Introduction to book by mere poet (5)




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