Crossword for Sun, 18/Feb/2024

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Across
1: A fool had peas cooked (7)

5: Prisoner's diplomacy at meeting. (7)

8: Hesitation before a certain deletion (7)

9: Italian dessert: Spelling eats a huge amount, Braxton eats a scrap (7)

11: Sanctions mailed through fool (7)

12: Broken home rid of beneficiarys condition (7)

13: Overhear them speak of the serpent's purpose. (9)

15: Indolence evident in Rowes Lothario (5)

16: Birds in white trousers (5)

18: Ensemble torches tram's interior (9)

22: I'd returned broken cover part, officially (7)

23: Theoretically, it is one before one (1,6)

25: Seed seen when garage is empty (7)

26: 8-down Its the exception to everything else in the dish tub (7,4)

27: Narcs study crackhead's ultimate road to nowhere (4,3)

28: Cuts cables again? (7)

Down
2: For Summits, speak out of order (5)

3: Queen is gaga for horses (7)

4: Sir Reed shot an American novelist (7)

5: Curious, one bowl holds heroin for compensation (5-2)

6: Effective arrangement by one decent person (1,4,4)

7: Smash top off strange fruit with speed (7)

8: Cancel Times and Enquirer initially (5)

10: War ultimately helps attacks (5)

14: Other way round!, deputy angrily avers (4,5)

16: Concluded that it was indeed the French nobleman (7)

17: Blonde's blemishes reflected (5)

18: Odysseus' first requirement - to catch you like Polyphemus? (3-4)

19: Church conceals torture instrument before king; it could be explosive. (7)

20: Make mistake with a check, largely irregular (7)

21: Neil Armstrong initially brought back extraterrestrial (5)

24: Mom going topless--that's something else (5)





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