No 11886, Saturday 24 Dec 2016, Gridman

ACROSS
1  Fouls in race by dishonest society scrubbers (5,6) FALSE STARTS {FALSE} {S}{TARTS} Scrubber/Tart ?
9   Asafoetida ruled out – it's goose egg (7) NOTHING {NOT}{HING}
10 Is inclined to be in church to purify (7) CLEANSE {C{LEANS}E}
11 Gosh! These dismissed the fliers (5) GEESE {GEE}{theSE}

12 Sing about each district magistrate being routine (9) TREADMILL {TR{EA}{DM}ILL}
13 Croat resettles in south Indian city (5) ARCOT*
15 Bygone Beatles classic (9) YESTERDAY [DD]

18 Inset: Huns in makeshift shelter (6,3) NISSEN HUT* Our first house after marriage was in one of these!

21 South African rodent, playing hard to get, turns up (5) COYPU {COY}{UP<=}

22 Protester to turn down relatives coming back (9) REFUSENIK {REFUSE}{KIN<=}
24 Regretful feeling over road crash (5) PRANG {P{R}ANG}
26 Create crop (7) PRODUCE [DD]
27 Fighter intended to announce suffering (7) ALIMENT {ALI}{MENT}(~ meant) I think Gridman has made a mistake in the definition
28 Items strewn about Parliament (11) WESTMINSTER*

DOWN
1  Excellent! Nearly excellent to have one quality that's desirable in a photograph (4-5) FINE-GRAIN {FINE}-{GRA{1}Nd}
2  Loiter around losing nothing out of liquid measure (5) LITRE LoITER*
3  Mostly spectacular, Union Government's focal point (9) EPICENTRE {EPIc}{CENTRE}
4  Drunk lay disheartened in a constricting way (7) TIGHTLY {TIGHT}{LaY}
5  Insects not originating affliction (7) RICKETS cRICKETS
6  Son and daughter besiege writer while away (5) SPEND {S}{PEN}{D}
7  Limitless puns please in a cruel manner (8) UNKINDLY {pUNs}{KINDLY}
8  Cad's command to dog (4) HEEL [DD]
14 Is this money always on the move, coming and going? (8) CASHFLOW [CD] Seems to have hit a roadblock in India nowadays!
16 Expect different leader coming up as special case (9) EXCEPTION {EXPECT}*{NO 1<=}
17 Solver, hoodlum's leaving Georgia as juvenile (9) YOUNGSTER {YOU}{gaNGSTER}*
19 Vandals remove top of fortifications and get hard (7) HUNKERS (-b+h)HUNKERS
20 Set one's sights and capture top-class military leader (4,3) TAKE AIM {TAKE} {A1}{Mi...y}
22 Revolutionary leader, on a target, is engrossed (4) RAPT {Re...y}{APT}
23 Native American wife's endless protest (5) SQUAW SQUAWk
25 Hail red Ford and Dodge (5) AVERT {AVE}{R}{T}

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