Crossword No 6 (fourth series)

           
               
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11          12                 
       
13    14        15      16        17 
               
18          19                 
       
20        21        22  23    24     
               
25          26                 
               
27                  28         

Clues across
1Adjusted girth, OK? (5)
4Cleat arranged round broken chin – something to do with applied science? (9)
9Three leading Communist characters with a proposal creating a disturbance (9)
10Kingdom’s true leader of men (5)
11Component of explosive could be inert (5)
12Untrustworthy, sporting flash ties (9)
13Painter surveys board (9)
16Gloomy and stern after start of day (5)
18One getting up – knight – turns back on queen (5)
19Eight-sided tag on coal needing sorting (9)
20A component chaps try initially to make flat (9)
23Paces out area (5)
25Disease found in wheat miller got yesterday (5)
26Mineral thrown round small car with uranium metal (9)
27Traitors return and dismount in faint illumination at night (9)
28Furnish European jest (5)
Clues down
1Fast vehicle – vehicle going backwards and forwards round ring after missing start (6-3)
2Compass returned in datum agreement (5)
3Owes treat, perhaps, so offers a ride in this? (3-6)
4If the confusion produces a wrong-doer . . . (5)
5. . . pepper, for example, will be minced, not shaken (9)
6Thorn found twisted at top of map (5)
7Each lemon gets squeezed for this creature (9)
8Animals cloned from monkeys, originally, in laboratories (5)
14Fond memories of No 1 Stalag, maybe (9)
15Show disapproval of confection, we’re told – but you can’t throw it away! (9)
16Summary: I have biscuit (9)
173-D representation of where aid agencies are delivering supplies? (6,3)
20Declares: “Raves are wild” (5)
21To sum up, lady singer gets confused after start of ‘Thais’ (5)
22Rely on corrosion appearing after short time (5)
24Farewell to God in France? (5)

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