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Across
- 1. Oddly calm and always sensible... (6)
- 4. ...many do get agitated at the start of the working week (6)
- 9. Younger brother of Japanese PM finds love (4)
- 10. Parlour worker's boyfriend Brown has eyes reportedly around Circe primarily (10)
- 11. Female's look, on meeting sweetheart having drug becomes paler (6)
- 12. Piece of cloth held by cabinetmaker/chief minister (8)
- 13. Servants outside felling tree and tubers (9)
- 15. Sarcastic editor retires after frequently using implausible source (5)
- 16. Cut a small fish (5)
- 18. Perhaps, drivers on road always lose velocity, some ignore order and have collision at the end (9)
- 22. Plant takes measure to control and primarily measure scum in half (8)
- 23. Block/check SB account at source, of an idle talker (6)
- 25. Gape at an exciting book (4-6)
- 26. Go slow to cover the capital (4)
- 27. Without doubt, river passes through India (6)
- 28. Agent's help is reciprocated (6)
Down
- 1. Lift pen kept across a black book (7)
- 2. Mathematician joins spa for unorthodox pleasure (5)
- 3. English doctor carrying goods, beheaded during prohibition (7)
- 5. Mahout crying, harbouring a complaint (6)
- 6. Ship's crew, by the last month will meet king at the outskirts of Drakelands (9)
- 7. Foreign currency gains attention; demonetization to start on December 31 (4-3)
- 8. Bet on politicians to siphon off a dollar, tweak source of financial document (4,9)
- 14. T knot (5,4)
- 17. Talk about a post on a dish (7)
- 19. Grenade exploded on guard (2,5)
- 20. Wrote to them and troubled (1-6)
- 21. Current cable at the tip contains copper to receive small charge (6)
- 24. Small cat has a mouth, perhaps (5)
