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…until you see it

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ACROSS

1          Scientist accepting a lot of sex from film maker

6          Antelope getting zero benefit when losing tail

9          Good river to display the splendour of France

10        Item in postbag clattered around, bearing Regina’s head (hyphenated)

11        Hanging around church gets one author surrounded by boredom

12        Crazy to swallow burning spirit

14        Excited? Rushed around I take it

15        Time without end in mock café (hyphenated)

17        Is fuel beginning to pour in confusion from part of waste disposal system? (hyphenated)

19        Some illicit reefer (naturally supplied by plant) (hyphenated)

20        Part of house moves up and down – front comes off

22        This instrument, with part malfunctioning, could be transformed to paraphernalia (two words)

25        No fellow getting first clue, perhaps, after a short time? It should make you obsessive

26        Fillet – the first to come out?

27        Look to contain one tender expression of sex drive?

28        Lioness against tucking into boy and soldiers in the country (two words)

DOWN

1          Hybrid children’s game long curtailed

2          Like certain crystals chap found in variety of hard lime

3          Is Rico possibly among the chosen few? Quite the reverse, though having the same potential

4          Quiet Kent area indicated as abode of duke

5          Teach this month about short uprising

6          South African fish – one’s cooked kilo

7          Fury with the material for a reader running short

8          Dangerous cut – sound of blade – terrifying stuff (hyphenated)

13        Novel pub meal? (three words)

14        Wild approbation, though book’s overlooked this eye defect

16        Not liking the smile of a deluded person? (three words)

18        Heart of storm with ship going under? This’ll help to make up (hyphenated)

19        The Parisian’s about to participate in experimental relay

21        Romantic lead losing his head? A nervous response related to sex

23        Deportation from Paris or Venice after denying the church, possibly

24        Capital of Hungary – a premier capital city

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