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Across
 1 Worker to secretly leave the horned mammal (8) ANTELOPE
 5 Dishonest scheme firstly surely cons another manager (4) SCAM
 9 Channel Islands new man is back about with the spice (8) CINNAMON
10 Kind of matter added to augment weight (6)
12 The present fruit (4) DATE
13 Relieved lad, leave it in a different style (10) ALLEVIATE
15 Hand over the short people noticed, dropping hundred named earlier (5-9) ABOVE MENTONED
17 Giving up almost the red fabric covering the queen is Her Majesty in the capital of Tibet (14)
21 Organise initially to spread titans out in a remote area (10) OUTSTATION
22 Bomb’s first particle (4) ATOM
25 Take at first an hour at tea-time for the tree at last to grow well (5) THRIVE
26 Friendly American is in charge of the sailor and the French (8) AMICABLE
27 A narrow way in Louisiana in the north-east (4) LANE
28 It surely needs to be sealed to be posted (8) ENVELOPE
Down
 1 Arrive with the small tree in the passageway (6) ARCADE
 2 Basic belief heartlessly the teen discovers (5) TENET
 3 Weight of the cargo (4) LOAD
 4 Difficult to question student held with money (7) PROBLEM
 6 Writers often face such disapprovals (10)
 7 No ailment to destroy the hormone (9) MELATONIN
 8 Said without one covering the right hand of the musical instrument (5)
11 Position inside a male anatomy (4) LEAN
14 Mutually settled the number of events in sequence (4,6) EVEN STEVEN
16 Liberal at developing two groups (9) BILATERAL
18 Busy with the tax officer following the superior (2,2)
19 Quiet woman to dance with an entertainer (7)
20 Prevent one member journalist in England (6) IMPEDE
21 Commander has time to notice a group of eight (5) OCTET
23 Mark on a social outcast (5) TABOO
24 Came out to the highest point (4) ACME