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Across
- 7. Champion oddly welcomes an Italian operatic composer after cutting short a drink of coffee (10)
- 9. Yours truly misplaced a valuable metal disc's picture (4)
- 10. Democrat initially bends backward to gather information on the inexpensive cut of meat (5-3)
- 11. Some of Kalki's methods are a fatalist's concern (6)
- 12. Right to get rid of the line in a shade of black on the cavalry sword (5)
- 13. Transition to a fruit leading to a wild run? (2,7)
- 14. Playing pace upsets legislator's sit out (7)
- 17. Gangster in front of a farm building getting power from a drink (7)
- 20. Train the man to welcome the tense revolutionary behind the wall-less cabin (9)
- 22. Choose to add to the family, potentially overnight? (5)
- 25. Playing pace of Virginia besieged by a moral weakness (6)
- 26. Grape variety found by a Greek character in front of a derelict castle (8)
- 27. Undeniably gross-looking iguana initially seen on a citrus fruit (4)
- 28. Returned a lower amount recently after a note to create a mosaic (10)
Down
- 1. Vehicle instrument panel found on a board over a shopfront (6)
- 2. Rocky debris with chromium spotted inside a German lake (5)
- 3. Vocal legatee with a right to enter the upended container to get the parachute delivery (3-4)
- 4. A mixed drink for the knight wearing crumpled calico (8)
- 5. One tucking into a well-prepared feast in an elaborate party (6)
- 6. Playing pace gets the calm Asian at the bottom expelled by a circular letter (8)
- 8. I repair, after aimless wandering, to a grassy plain (7)
- 15. Energy spent after the Pole decamps with the fermentation agents' residue (8)
- 16. Potentially fatal Russian game? (8)
- 18. Eccentric's audible cry after getting evenly loaded (7)
- 19. One encountered northbound bridge opponents after I entered the record (7)
- 21. Style of handwriting in the letters from the hospital ICU (6)
- 23. Playing pace depicted in a torn poster (6)
- 24. Doorkeeper removing a perambulator's top (5)
