Crossword for Sat, 10/Feb/2018

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Across
1: Tits are flying birds (7)

6: Flower festival is pointless (5)

8: Sprinkles studs under reconstruction (5)

9: Minor work taking half a month - an endless epistle (9)

11: One partner took it to reproduce (7)

12: Those with regrets reining in destroyers (7)

14: Broken home rid of beneficiarys condition (7)

15: Pattern upset clients (7)

17: Lies for each twelve men (7)

19: Blacked out counter-studies about court (7)

21: Driver who's disappeared in conflict (7)

23: Explosive device held by one failed candidate (7)

24: To get revenge, we tail a terrorist hiding in retreat (9)

26: Eights had to race again, we hear, concerning fish spawn. (2, 3)

27: Tender translator of runes (5)

28: Plots get Cuban revolutionary leader in a terrible mess (7)

Down
1: Ruddy rare steak, say? (7)

2: One giving evidence, if ignored, would be more snappish (9)

3: Drunkard turns up near beach, reversing new habit, to sleep fitfully (4,3,4)

4: Ray! Say lad, smile! (7)

5: Notice the parts of speech and get different parts of speech (7)

6: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

7: This identifies the literary epic at the outset! (5)

10: As in 'Lee goes back to the drawing board' (5)

13: Beware of these they show the funny side of the month! (4,2,5)

16: Creature of habit goes in to pay upon receipt of drink? It's puzzling. (9)

17: Pull 500 from newfallen snow (5)

18: Distance to pull cart up before time (7)

19: A child toils to produce poems (7)

20: Certain engines stall less jerkily (7)

22: Swamp creature resting tail on a rocky outcrop (5)

25: Fiction position (3)





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