Across
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Sweat blood! A new rallying cry (6)
5
In which Dashing White Sergeants may follow Gay Gordons? (8)
9
Writing in Afghan province curtailed by the one in charge (8)
11
Seek election fast? Not with error included in May’s 1 (6,3,6)
14
Oxbridge set, lacking suitable leader, take Ten by storm with Johnson’s 1 (3,6,4)
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Preferred to welcome soggy dew: he’ll wake up damp (9)
22
Hostility when vying for the part (4)
24
Times includes set classifications by birth (3,6)
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Mafia’s come to conceal calamity (6)
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Cool clue for face (4-4)
28
Mortice plugged by centre of key turns fast (8)
Down
2
City’s residue includes primary deposits (5)
3
Fool capsized horse in charge – what a sap! (3,6)
4
The chosen one – me! – in one arrangement (7)
6
Playing while banged up (6)
7
National initially is ready and quits idling (5)
8
The daughter of my brother by another mother, say – quite lovely about end of life (4-5)
12
Alkene libation recanted in part of Texas city (7)
15
Long for former lover? It evens out (9)
17
Overwhelm with clue to ‘burn me’? (9)
21
Balfour, no effin’ joke, ain’t Geordie royalty, according to Thatcher’s 1 (6,4,7)
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Obama’s 1 – quite so! Learn to live without Conservative (3,2,3)
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Be without, we hear, water (3)