Cryptic Clues
ACROSS
1 Tell, perhaps, of angry archer (11)
9 Properly in touch with the situation and not worried, he goes to dance (2,3,4)
10 Rigorous old decree (5)
11 He takes the Italian a cigar (6)
12 Representative from Germany meets English ambassador (8)
13 Ulster doctor's renown (6)
15 Man of the church to object to Yeltsin's first preference (8)
18 Thin smug butcher becomes small-arms maker (8)
19 Hate letters coming from cadet establishment (6)
21 Hold back all others representing Iran (8)
23 Bet on game involving Belgium and Luxembourg (6)
26 A woman visits Norway with this Irish politician (5)
27 Prudent to supply books (9)
28 A ranee threw broken crockery (11)
DOWN
1 Charles left me after working online in this Irish town (7)
2 Alternative to new playwright (5)
3 One taking a beating in the Caribbean? (5,4)
4 Honour a neutral country (4)
5 Superior apprentice boy wears cheerful purple colour (8)
6 A relation of Edward imprisoned in French city (5)
7 28 is crazy about the Queen (7)
8 Soldier's thing with Elizabeth's hanger-on (8)
14 Left with nun around one on the 3rd of January (8)
16 Theatre performance? (9)
17 She stops after public exposure? (8)
18 Relevant when east European goes first (7)
20 You once housed revolutionary art in a playhouse (7)
22 Park officer loses right to move around freely (5)
24 British communist visits a city in the Netherlands (5)
25 At first Larry organised cheap holidays by a lake in Scotland (4)
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