Crossword for Fri, 31/Mar/2023

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Across
1: Foreign car, in neutral, crashed (7)

4: Circus performer in a European big top (7)

8: Surpass former church leader, at first (5)

10: Prepare too much for apparent downpour (9)

11: Changes direction with care, as befits a benefactor. (4, 4, 5)

13: Determination: we're not finished detaining sick P.O.W. (9)

16: Freshen the atmosphere (3)

18: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

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

21: Chewed-up gum in tater -- how toothsome (5-8)

24: Secures a term and travels (4,5)

26: Reject the upset outcast (5)

27: Ardent supporter strangely vetoed last part of statute (7)

28: Warning: Reverend Spooner's run off with newspaper (3,4)
Down
1: Grant again drew one crookedly (7)

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

3: Thus might florin study a silly timekeeper (3-3,5)

4: Top card? Excellent! (3)

5: Restricting agent's rant about ill-conceived trade (9)

6: Eighteen rounds initially served in golf-club bar (9)

7: Not going back, confident, with shaved head (7)

9: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

12: Barque, for one, is a trio-tutor (5-6)

14: Almost as it happens, keeping erratic time to recurrent theme (9)

15: Survey mutants with missing shells for a possible cause of damage (9)

17: Douglas, initially tough, is knocked out (7)

20: Put out a journal in a foreign language (7)

22: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

23: Single parliamentary representative on the Spanish drive (5)

25: Nothing we have to pay (3)




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