| Clues across |
| 8 | A deity is found lying in state in this temple (6) |
| 9 | Bored, forgetting aide-memoire when shopping (8) |
| 10 | Crooked cats’ lips are easily moulded into shape (8) |
| 11 | Foreign currency thrown around American university, causing ill-will (6) |
| 12 | Northern flyers carrying good direction-finders (10) |
| 14 | Want to make dough, we’re told (4) |
| 15 | Most return holding card with no clearance, initially, for this state (7) |
| 17 | Directions given to youth, one selling papers (7) |
| 20 | Sprung a leak, it’s said, in this part of ship (4) |
| 22 | Spineless, confused, missing 40% of brain, but firmly established (10) |
| 24 | Girl holds broken cane – to control these choirboys? (6) |
| 25 | In mid-day break, French clown reveals system of writing music (8) |
| 27 | “Shout!” we’re told, (and grouse, perhaps) at cricket or tennis match (4-4) |
| 28 | Overseer has no right to become an enemy (6) |
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| Clues down |
| 1 | Story-teller turns up with methods, making tracks (8) |
| 2 | Stunted growth revealed in what Gibbon said (6) |
| 3 | Airs wafted around robe (4) |
| 4 | Flower in bloom seen around ship (7) |
| 5 | Idiots! Soldiers in street calculate how much tax needs to be paid (10) |
| 6 | A, B, C, H and O, for instance (8) |
| 7 | Fly! Parisian is coming back – and again! (6) |
| 13 | Sailor first found down under (10) |
| 16 | Rally round diameter, running from centre like this? (8) |
| 18 | I’m in fashion, wearing precious stone – it’s not compulsory (8) |
| 19 | Len gave out good news (7) |
| 21 | No turning back on eastern route (3-3) |
| 23 | Nonsense! Catch up – it’s gone off! (6) |
| 26 | At first, take off and swell (4) |
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