Crossword for Thu, 6/Oct/2022

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Across
2: Teen unclothes poorly dressed diners (13)

8: Real idiot's rewritten opinion piece (9)

11: Father Brown's latest femme fatale (5)

12: Come before chief of police, and back off (7)

13: Strip of soil bearing large heads of Belgian endive (7)

15: Drunk rises, holding tubular headgear (3,4)

16: Feel sick from crack? (3)

17: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

18: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)

19: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

20: Vice exploits body cavities (7)

22: Sterne's novel settlers (7)

24: Call back upstart by the Spanish king of old Portugal (7)

25: Bury with arms and legs but no head (5)

27: A language one may read about (9)

28: Canadian water ordered for regal tea-break (5,4,4)
Down
1: Spring inside proper old theatre (7)

3: Some wealthy women, I'm told, gossip about curves (9)

4: Drunk band I conducted (5)

5: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

6: 3-down said Sir, I have these! (5,4,4)

7: Lott, e.g., is upset. Treason! (7)

9: Free sex, lips in beer; it's beyond words (13)

10: Spy on (9)

14: The foreign policeman dropped me before the end of 'Absolutely Fabulous' (9)

16: Leave sorcerer to bible-basher (9)

18: Piano finale not determined (7)

21: Sausages from a Greek island (7)

23: Monsieur is immersed in unspecified French river (5)

26: Period email feature (3)




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