Puzzle No. 3219

Puzzle No. 3219

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ACROSS
 1 Religious figure shreds television accessory (6,4)
 6 Mast’s box (4)
10 Where zlotys are stored for an event (4,5)
11 Core of scorched earth (5)
12 Why don’t we broadcast Latvians? (5)
13 Dodging most of state with one hop (9)
14 Circulated a mailer in Western city (7)
15 Black bird-dog (6)
18 Cars without Ed inside (6)
19 Taking on the first gang is pressing (7)
21 Dental irregularities and misshapen toes I went around to cure, for example (9)
23 Unraveling wires is more prudent (5)
25 Reject green water (5)
26 Profound awe about distressed veneer covering front of cabinet (9)
27 Turner precedes head of overseas alliance (4)
28 In general, conservative throngs present something terrifying (5,5)
DOWN
 1 Keep away pariah on the rise (5)
 2 Reinforced debt’s role in crisis (9)
 3 In religious attire, bluff Wall Street institution (10,4)
 4 Acted like a flightless bird, deceased (dead) (8)
 5 Budget to betray concealed intelligence (6)
 7 Man eating river shrimp (5)
 8 14D is TNT George exploded (6,3)
 9 Church council guaranteed to induce weight loss? (3,4,2,5)
14 8 deposited around rock (4,3,2)
16 Musical slide that tells you how to interpret “glund” as “sound”? (9)
17 Overlook composer’s correspondence (8)
20 Holy man with roguish formality (6)
22 Be a supporter of patriarchal hegemony without leadership (5)
24 Slender animals climbing over yurt’s roof (5)
TINKER 2A LE(CAR+R)E, 6A M(URAL)IST, 19A DO(MAIN)S, 2D CO(U)LD, 15D HARE (“hair”)

TAILOR 11A LIDS (anag.), 13A STIR (2 defs.), 16A SAVIOR (anag.), 4D IRIS[h] + [fl]ES[hy], 12D SKEWE + D (weeks anag.)

SOLDIER 7A SAW (2 defs.), 17A RED (rev.), 1D TIER (“tear”), 8D [g]RANT, 10D ADS (anag.)

SPY 9A T + U(L)SA, 18A FRE(U)DIAN (a friend anag.), 3D ERAS(E) + S, 5D ESAU (init. letters), 14D I + OW + AN

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