Crossword for Mon, 4/Sep/2017

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Across
1: Tongue-in-cheek advice to enter cast (5,1,3)

4: Identifies men as displaced - best not to be one at 34's (5)

7: Model unusually creepy hat (9)

10: Sensible and articulate (5)

11: Tiny weight once you're in (5)

12: Behold grand gold flightless bird, chattering endlessly (9)

14: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

16: Direct object (3)

17: Draw a stomach uprising (3)

18: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

20: See, sir; bar is operating at the beer eatery (9)

22: Neil Armstrong, first to return from another world? (5)

23: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)

25: Skillfully planned wild tiger acts (9)

27: Lightweight cat (5)

28: Rally has promotion I created primarily in a new way (9)

Down
1: Confirm what Goldilocks discovered (4,3)

2: Non-clerical song (3)

3: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

4: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)

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

6: Mobster at heart, presently I'll be carrying expensive pistol on hip (7)

8: Fool gets share of standards in 25-down (13)

9: Models from Evans Head extremely purposeful in Red Planet (9)

12: Jacket flap with label's centerpiece inverted? (5)

13: Train sets notwithstanding (9)

15: I'm to get older in picture (5)

17: Leaves mid-October accounts depleted by 50 per cent (7)

19: Scared, pay to cover up dent (7)

21: Part of stair is erect (5)

24: I am reported to leer (3)

26: Clear initial rubbish in drain (3)





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