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ACROSS
1 Get together with cheat on the edge (8) CONVERGE
5 Monkey with a new colour (6)
9 Don’t do anything to show it! (7) NEGLECT
10 Asian leader, attacked harshly, is disconcerted (7) ABASHED
11 Having an appearance for Doordarshan? (9) TELEGENIC
12 Gridman is back having encountered insect (5) EMMET
13 Country in super utopian state (4) PERU
14 Alas, saint turns attacker (9) ASSAILANT
17 Start-up (9)
19 It leaves certain things to certain people (4) WILL
23 Cut short graduate and boy (5)
24 Make inoffensive bad ode and act by wayward sire (9) DEODORISE
25 A lot of time to put footless Indian disciple in a step by step arrangement (7)
26 It takes a lot of time to note to repeat (7) ITERATE
27 Dread making ultimately unpleasant mistake (6) TERROR
28 Herein a spun-out tale, out of this world (8) ETHEREAL
DOWN1 Once path’s hacked, war memorial is seen (8) CENOTAPH
2 Fuss-pot has leggin thrown at redhead (7) NIGGLER
3 Drive ne’er paved on the limits of Gooty (6) ENERGY
4 Learn everything about the job by infiltrating a worker? (3,4,4,2) GET ONES HAND IN
6 ”Woman: shall we go for a buzzer or __ __ __ __ better option?” (2,1,4,1) IS A BELL A
7 One grandmother taking in murmur that is bestial (7) INHUMAN
8 Untidy — untidy with nothing on (6) NUDITY
10 One who goes for the digs (13) ARCHAEOLOGIST
15 French wine, pulse, with two ducks for the meal (8)
16 Flower girl, we hear, follows the conservative (8)
18 Fielder Tom dear in France (7) CATCHER
20 One friend carries one ton to copy (7) IMITATE
21 Sailor despatched, showing a lack of attention (6) ABSENT
22 Stick together with company present (5)