CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Old court bars rematch surprisingly (4,7)
9 Accompanying a servant (9)
10 Mother meets tennis players from this country (5)
11 Terrorists caught by private operating illegally (6)
12 Girl to go ashore in state (8)
13 Queen Elizabeth returned and heard philosopher renounce a former belief (6)
15 Dilapidated tram door found in English National Park (8)
18 Bird cooked with a bit of Emmental at state park's opening (8)
19 Copper has strange fear approaching boy in building (6)
21 Church painter and social reformer (8)
23 Academic rant about sacred text (6)
26 General receives a shilling for rent (5)
27 Made clear by girl without condition before I finally signed (9)
28 Died before another deer escaped (11)
DOWN
1 Photographer of fish (7)
2 On the move like some of the Irish (5)
3 Woman with Tory attitude (9)
4 At first Alan waits although Yvonne is not at home (4)
5 Unintentional revelation by Greek character about man at fifty (8)
6 Extremely melancholy after odd game of cards (5)
7 Newspaper article contains name of Greek lover (7)
8 Get rid of chapter on old king of France (5,3)
14 Delivery of porcelain gets to Massachusetts by noon (8)
16 Dicky trained us to avert the face (4,5)
17 Slaughter of male animal somewhere in Israel (8)
18 County town in Scotland has student band on Wednesday (7)
20 Stigmatized graduate accepts foreign money (7)
22 Prepare to drive sheep around eastern Spain (3,2)
24 Attempts and scores (5)
25 We pocket silver as payment for services (4)
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