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  g   g   g   g g   g   g   g
8.           g 9.    
  g   g   g   g g   g   g   g
10.         g 11.      
  g   g   g   g g   g   g   g
12.      g 13.  14.  15.  16.  17.
  g   g   g   g   g   g   g  
18. 19.  20.  21.     g 22.     
g   g   g   g g   g   g   g  
23.       g 24.        
g   g   g   g g   g   g   g  
25.     g 26.          
g   g   g   g g   g   g   g  
27.       g 28.        

ACROSS

1,5. I gobble one less, in such a way as the West should consider (8,6)

8. Half-greens sorround European cheese for European lady (6,4)

9. Sign of men without force (4)

10. Beware - drive East! (4,4)

11. Kingdom returning thin plate (6)

12. Where to find a middle Easterner some room - an inn? (5)

13. No about-turn ... heartless all through the night (9)

18. Figures about writer with periods of tension (9)

22. To team without a mascot (5)

23. Hides about horse-tail bundles (6)

24. Riviera characters about the North (North of Victoria) (8)

25. Protective clothing for violent sex, alright? (4)

26. In rarest of wild habitat, eg in far East of Victoria (10)

27. Flow right into very hot water (6)

28. Referred education to follow promotion (8)

DOWN

1. Easing "not" into such expressions? (9)

2. Union embargos for coloured bars (9)

3. Ten doctrine has no time for injecting straight into the blood (9)

4. Undersets letters of ecclesiastic assemblies (9)

5. In one short month, Vera gets to really ham it up (7)

6. Crazier toilet on the dock (7)

7. A vaguer revolutionary? (7)

14. Do use chin appropriately padded (9)

15. Crazy place to put flag (2,3,4)

16. What ruminant ate, processed without drinking help (9)

17. Am blasted, as it were (9)

19. Untidy punk met with new order (7)

20. Right in tricky spot - it's thorny (7)

21. Cure negative guitar action (7)