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ACROSS
1 Sacks returned for final part of letters (5) SERIF - FIRES rev.
4 Weaving carpet and matting would surely defeat me (3-6) TAP-DANCER - (carpet and)* - two anaginds
9 Peace created by fog and frost by a river (9) A,R,MIST,ICE
10 This trailer is a water container (5) GOURD - dd - the plant trails along the ground as it grows
11 Just know Eskimos will have little time inside (6) IN(T)UIT
12 Way for London to lose its attraction and shopping centre (4,4) PALL MALL
14 Round campanula flower turned back in present flowering plant (9)
16 Bluff chap (5) HELLEBORE - O BELL rev. inside HERE
17 Will possibly sounds like a small child (5) MIGHT - homophone of 'mite'
19 Girl group with European dance number (9) SARA,BAND,E
21 Large wild agaves adjacent to sierra resort (3,5) LAS VEGAS - (l agaves s)*
22 Man and woman creating fine woollen cloth (6) VIC,UNA
25 Way to change one's view when queen enters (5) T(R)ACK
26 Prickly, good for temperature, as most desert crops are (9) IRRIGABLE - G replacing T in 'irritable'
27 Some rowing about agreement with king’s order to forces (4,5) EYES RIGHT - YES inside EIGHT
28 Fail with a Japanese poem (5) TANK,A
DOWN
1 Dish for a European spread is in character, mostly (7,8) SPAN,IS,H OME,LETTE(r) (home = in)
2 Right to give out pardon (5) R,EMIT
3 What’s established during a number of Christmases? (7) FESTIVE - EST inside FIVE
4 Weak object loses its end (4) THIN(g)
5 Small flat pastry with fruit? Sin coming up! (4-1-5) PIE,D-A-TE,RRE - where ERR rev. is the last element
6 Strangely genial Conservative is exceptionally kind (7) ANGELIC - (genial c)*
7 Reason for action about America? No, it's over (9) CA,USA,TION - CA + USA + NO IT rev.
8 Film a red car for novel adaptation outside suspect cafe in Oxford location (9,6) RADCLIFFE CAMERA - {cafe)* inside (film a red car for)* - one anagram inside another!
13 Prophet's hurrying to give an example of joint endeavour (3,7) JOB S,HARING
15 Member misses deadline to vote through law (9) LEG,IS,LATE
18 Challenged traveller in space series killing star king and queen (7) TREKKER ?
20 Girl is cross over ending of benefit (7) BRIDGE,T
23 Merged group of four banks in the City (5) URBAN - incl.
24 Run in Oscar Wilde, perhaps for a court order (4) W(R)IT
KEY
to abbreviations/terms/symbols which may have been used
(raga man)* = anagram of 'anagram'
cd = cryptic definition
dd = double definition
incl. = inclusive (hidden word)
def. = definition (synonym, literal)
rev. = reversed
anagind = anagram indicator
homophind = homophone indicator
surface - the apparent meaning of the clue, disguising what's really going on
&lit. - a clue in which the whole clue is the 'definition'
COD = clue of the day (imo); FOI, LOI, first/last one written in
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