| Clues across |
| 1 | Warmer Rio river, maybe, facilitates retrospection (4,4,6) |
| 9 | Cowboy’s job is to raise to more convenient number (5,2) |
| 10 | Announce wrongly “Cleared!” (7) |
| 11 | Legendary bird or headless reptile (3) |
| 12 | Mishaps Nora suffers, showing ability to have a row (11) |
| 13 | Issued orders and drew straight lines (5) |
| 15 | Scold and throw aside one barrier (9) |
| 18 | Old US President, badly deformed, found in sled, throttled (9) |
| 19 | Come into hospital department with hesitation (5) |
| 20 | Fruit shared for dessert (6,5) |
| 24 | Rover, perhaps, returns object of worship (3) |
| 26 | Neater conifer, right? (7) |
| 27 | Rushed back at speed to tell story (7) |
| 28 | Impartial youth leader and 24 have parent appearing in pantomime (5,9) |
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| Clues down |
| 1 | Are found in posh car – not so common (5) |
| 2 | “Vulcan are you, eh?” it’s said – confused like one’s father’s brother! (9) |
| 3 | One dove seen flapping about in recording for TV (5) |
| 4 | Never-ending empire, one placed over US state, known only by experience (9) |
| 5 | If this woman turns up, she looks just the same (5) |
| 6 | Restore friendship with one cleric, maybe (5) |
| 7 | Exclamation about periodical seen in Northern Irish town (5) |
| 8 | Skip twelve months – this provides an extra day! (4,4) |
| 13 | Horse-bus broken down, found in garden (8) |
| 14 | Rancid gin is served up for travellers in this? (6-3) |
| 16 | Relegated to minor role, Denis turns up around cooked-meat shop (9) |
| 17 | Car shown on chart, often begged from celebrity (9) |
| 21 | Girl not quite usual (5) |
| 22 | Gush in silly fashion about first of runners and make gesture of uncertainty (5) |
| 23 | Body hidden in doctor’s operating theatre (5) |
| 25 | Miserable, supporting five hundred on back (5) |
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