Across
1 Silly smile upset NCO at first (5)
4 Drop, clutching tip of hand in pain in landing zone (9)
9 Company mistreated millions adopting a means to exploit dependencies (11)
10 Three-handed bridge? That’s novel (3)
11 Historic city kid – Artful Dodger’s place? Not half (7)
12 Satisfying consultation (7)
13 Row of houses unfinished, having applied excessive source of awful reddish colour (10)
15 Beginning to lose a little lead (4)
18 Fellow more-or-less happy about liberal people (4)
19 Select CAPS, when making edits – they make things easier to read (10)
22 Hard to avoid best flowering plant (7)
24 Father’s active and delicate (7)
25 Special former lover offering it? (3)
26 Small measure dished up when in Egypt (11)
27 A dodgy smile, cunning, but without intent (9)
28 Without friends, getting drunk, tucking into beer (5)
Down
1 Old instrument has wine barrel cut down (7)
2 Restrictive arrangement of Braille in one line (9)
3 Family stuff fixing climax of historical tragedy (4,4)
4 Intelligence in Britain having to fall (5)
5 Given a kiss, I will get romantic, losing head, forgetting name (9)
6 Tragic figure, male, accommodated in vigorous time (6)
7 Lack of interest in Rossini unnecessarily picked up (5)
8 Party with a German widow (7)
14 The other side chooses to keep on interrupting writer (9)
16 Tense singer hogging piece should get reprimand (7-2)
17 Prison’s mostly safeguarding a downbeat US city (8)
18 Such – if developed – will lead to a flower (7)
20 Dear little resident in farm buildings losing tail (7)
21 Medicinal plant is coming up before tree after area’s cleared (6)
23 Machine-gun, variable in harm (5)
24 Fine place to stop, not wanting a quick trip past (3-2)
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