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Across
- 1. Clamp, and for a while, drill (5,3,3)
- 9. Occasionally test aim in commotion (2,5)
- 10. Heartlessly study cricket, for instance (6)
- 11. Poets are leading drunks in pubs? (5)
- 12. Drone, endlessly at sea, in support of robot (7)
- 15. Bull swallows Big Apple and mineral (4)
- 16. Demonstrators are in favour of setter’s doctor (10)
- 18. Giants lash native upheaval (10)
- 20. Initially, I don’t envision any plan (4)
- 23. Film star has a conservative hairdo (7)
- 24. Take a blanket, we hear (5)
- 26. Chopin certainly hides tool (6)
- 27. Asian engineer protected by giant (7)
- 28. Loosens up, makes fun of a book (6,5)
Down
- 2. One moth initially in flower’s cracked surface (6)
- 3. Value company of good man (4)
- 4. Turning away extraterrestrial giant somehow (10)
- 5. Sit awkwardly in bandage when hurt (8)
- 6. Company to approach bank (7)
- 7. Swindle resort, blame bozo (9)
- 8. Wild tale about Bond’s boss (6)
- 13. Her co-stars form musical groups (10)
- 14. Attacking donkey that is unwell (9)
- 17. Military buildings have cake stands (8)
- 19. Vice can be treated with weakened pathogen (7)
- 21. Final villager falls into grave in famine (6)
- 22. Bank auditorium missing hall entrance (6)
- 25. Footprint of idols from the South (4)