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Across
- 1. You once were caught in secret delight — it's a fancy (4,7)
- 9. Crow: knave brings bundle back (7)
- 10. Nice tax reform not quite correct (7)
- 11. With regret — miserable lads sorry in the extreme (5)
- 12. Mean person's mother in Dutch port (9)
- 13. Get used to one tricky run with ultimate fortitude (5)
- 15. Green site developed in reserve (9)
- 18. Interest perked up about one complaint (9)
- 21. Recorded: a learning method by speech (5)
- 22. Committed reserve detectives drawn back to engage in exploit (9)
- 24. More courageous casino patron (5)
- 26. Fruit, a necessity a son retrieved (7)
- 27. Tiny holes in most of fruit hoarded in South Arcot (7)
- 28. European country said to be foolishly inapt in make-up (11)
Down
- 1. Unfairness suppressed right within one French city (9)
- 2. Not all fortune I declared initially is clear (5)
- 3. Dry debate about child's toy (5,4)
- 4. Forward subject for a report on hospital sections (7)
- 5. Good germ fighter to shine (7)
- 6. One's header for an essay (5)
- 7. Son endlessly gained and appropriated for Californian city (3,5)
- 8. Cut off leaf holder (4)
- 14. Adept out and determined to be current (2-2-4)
- 16. Place for discussion sewn up by half-grim publishing house (9)
- 17. A brine mixture made by worker is intoxicating (9)
- 19. Measure speed of bird? (7)
- 20. Cruel folks dump a wicked god with a little temerity among saints (7)
- 22. Break in race (4)
- 23. Held on to Chennai's top organ (5)
- 25. Two notes about a beach (5)