Crossword for Sun, 8/Nov/2020

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Across
1: Great crowd spirit (5)

4: Dumb moans cracked up investigator of complaints (9)

8: Half-open tomb put in a shrouded form (7)

10: Supplier of defective rockets (7)

12: Hide the real solution (7)

13: Short measure and light weight, say (7)

14: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

15: Organized fatso follows start of precise measurement including pound of seasoning (11)

16: Weapons in a womans speech (11)

21: Rohmer hiding unit of Resistance (3)

23: Determined attack on a moribund collection (4,3)

24: Risks making Chinese detective dry up (7)

25: Ordering a meal is causing uneasiness (7)

26: A letter from Greece - about a sort of April flower (7)

27: Returned, blushing about departure (9)

28: Put a new value on what secret agent is hiding (5)

Down
1: Smile about Crazy Mel, a supposed source of trouble (7)

2: Tidy up and clean floor finally and decisively (4,3,3,3)

3: Tinkers jump in children's world (3,4)

5: Ask for bit of bread with melted cheese (7)

6: Leave northbound dude in car (4,3)

7: Tender translator of runes (5)

9: I turn, lost, in Italian city (5)

11: Cook ran; ragout spilled; one might jump to conclusions here? (8,5)

17: Hate how kids lie badly (7)

18: It's news broadcast for a seer (7)

19: Go over and bring harness-racing horse back (5)

20: Carrie's telekinesis is more frightening (7)

22: Horse fly's, um, retreating (7)

23: Regretted backing up grasping tip of massive object (5)





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