| Clues across |
| 1 | Palace, playing halma, gets support (8) |
| 6 | Animals held in kennel and slaughtered (6) |
| 9 | Incline head when charge follows? Turn round and forgive (6) |
| 10 | Dismiss wrinkle? No, quite the reverse – a walker may need it! (8) |
| 11 | Head vegetable (4) |
| 12 | At university, gun-holder starting year provides soft furnishings (10) |
| 13 | You want fourth part of play at end of June? Then get moving! (8) |
| 16 | Cries made by lambs in tumbledown stable (6) |
| 18 | Unique individual out of condition (3-3) |
| 19 | Title of manuscript about derelict square (8) |
| 20 | Clean motor crashed in rally (5,5) |
| 23 | One cat is a very small thing (4) |
| 25 | Hacks rib off – tastes salty (8) |
| 26 | Throws out defective vice – it’s failing to open (6) |
| 27 | Be neat! Otherwise, get thrashed! (6) |
| 28 | Old king, returning trap holding first of nightingales, is getting 17 (8) |
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| Clues down |
| 2 | Satisfy but not starting to pay rent . . . (5) |
| 3 | . . . and getting worker in on first of October, not too slow (9) |
| 4 | Prohibit second person singular in French language (5) |
| 5 | Broadcast by boss to round up high-ranking officer (3,5,7) |
| 6 | King’s weapon uses obsolete diameter of bullets, we’re told (9) |
| 7 | Property in the manner prescribed (5) |
| 8 | Speaks after last month and presents medals (9) |
| 14 | Start operating on sergeant, perhaps, spreading curse around in meeting-place (9) |
| 15 | Love a very loud section which fails to start (9) |
| 17 | Auctioned off something obtained in school (9) |
| 21 | Silent cat’s turned up on it (5) |
| 22 | A rope gets twisted in theatrical production (5) |
| 24 | Frequently decimal, it seems (5) |
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