Independent Cryptic #1746

2023-08-13

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Across

1a

Arrive meeting heads of free trade zone then returning recent visitor (8)

5a

I moon and girl turns round (6)

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8a

Display cut flower (3)

9a

Penny's sheer fun cavorting in showers perhaps (10)

10a

Spooner's 24-hour low period in Exchange (8)

11a

Route from a finally snuffed-out Planet Earth (6)

12a

Rock star Moon obviously round the twist and not all there (4)

14a

High time to appear here? (10)

17a

Tried so desperately to get in my boss's position (10)

20a

Pale moon obscured intermittently for long time (4)

23a

Bear right getting around a 180° turn first (6)

24a

Follower of Wigan or Oldham but not Bolton? (8)

25a

Dread tale about fallen leader drowning in loch (10)

26a

Low waning moon (3)

27a

Boldly attempt without Yankee involvement to reach moon (6)

28a

Artists dropping by initially for long time devotees (8)

Down

1d

Check with a knight on board - like something out of Chess ? (9)

2d

Gloom finally obliterated by downpour - it's a plague (7)

3d

Sweet soy curd: meal never finished (6)

4d

Hard Lefties upset by being included in time-honoured series (9)

5d

Reserve forwards having treatment to reduce swelling (7)

6d

Tricksy Medea's daughter takes on tragic heroine (9)

7d

Record melody underpinning New World - 27's (7)

13d

Without a break paid for by revolutionary? (9)

15d

Drink fizzy tonic with say caviare reportedly (9)

16d

Manage each bad-tempered encounter (9)

18d

Moon possibly more strange after onset of darkness (7)

19d

Engineers riding express coach again (7)

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21d

Buries cat beneath space by empty bins (7)

22d

Wine store missing the Spanish and French red (6)