Crossword for Sat, 12/May/2018

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Across
1: Flower shop nosh about $41 (5)

4: Electrical units losing energy . . . and . . . and . . . (9)

8: Vegetables are chickens? (9)

9: Lifeblood of dope (3)

11: Last year said to be decadent (7)

14: A brutal arrangement in rows and columns (7)

15: Dispatch Socialist in contempt (5)

16: Old Italian composer Alessandro Mark left Tait injured (9)

18: Masters' final foursome tees off -- 'Singh-ular' start (6,3)

19: Strap, though short, has hanger's heart (5)

20: Give in to clumsy one swallowing vegetables (7)

22: Anticipate warning cry about bearing (7)

23: Pass mould (3)

24: Hesitate to leave when harboring evil (9)

27: Doctor singes off top of sore and bandages (9)

28: Calls for lemon and mustard, losing zero weight (5)

Down
1: Fling an item of furniture (3,5,5)

2: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

3: Itinerant labor packing fruit for Great White Hunter? (5,4)

4: In the manner of a girl (3)

5: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

6: Boxer Max returned, holding heroin, for treatment (5)

7: Clearances for the first couple of characters to find answers. (11)

10: Monarch met monarch in even open space for coin-operated machines (7,6)

12: 7-down relic? (6,5)

13: Easily bent out of shape? So smile, silly (7)

14: Kind of blue hereafter, at heart; this might tell what's to come? (3,4)

17: Subsequent supporter for Sideways (9)

21: Ace girl gets it wrong (5)

24: 23% of Scandinavians backing leaders (3)

25: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)

26: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)





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