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Across
- 1. "Commander's fit to capture stronghold — At ease!" (11)
- 9. Rule Niger badly (5)
- 10. I am on time, you hear! Without any preparation! (9)
- 11. Abreast, like LR? (4,2,4)
- 12. It's chokey for one just over 18 shortly (4)
- 13. Spoilt, stale unit (5)
- 15. Indy team danced for Wodehouse's uncle? (8)
- 17. Ban bird's tap (8)
- 19. Dramatist: "First, nothing less than 10 to the power of 100" (5)
- 22. Din, in India, may follow this type of pain? (4)
- 23. Foreign country expels national leader resulting in estrangement (10)
- 26. Perhaps, trunk-callers erroneously telephone, substituting a nine, at first, for one six in the beginning (9)
- 27. Goodbye, heads of all departments in English university (5)
- 28. Gardner lies about chief troublemakers (11)
Down
- 1. Behind church, daughter consumes one large tot (5)
- 2. Con man on the run consumes BLT preparation in the peak of European tourism (4,5)
- 3. It's built with two rings and ellipse to start with serving no practical purpose (6)
- 4. Unenthusiastically dresses pet lazily (7)
- 5. Bishop loves king? Novel, perhaps (4)
- 6. Sending out old wine and gin cocktail (9)
- 7. Test paper, set without presence of PTA, is determined in advance (6)
- 8. Swiss psychiatrist is at the French forest (6)
- 14. Track deer footprints with some hesitation, followed by swallow, an insectivorous creature (5,4)
- 16. Increase, in Agra, government value added tax on energy (9)
- 17. Reptiles slither? Ask Sen (6)
- 18. Foreign currency is with the Spanish officer (7)
- 20. Indian monkey found in Jalan Gurdwara (6)
- 21. Somehow aspire for Iran of yore (6)
- 24. Plants four Romans, that is, senators initially (5)
- 25. Mongolian ruler takes thousand ethnic Chinese (4)
