No 12633, Thursday 23 May 2019, Gridman

ACROSS
1   Animal worker's east-bound (8) ANTELOPE {ANT}{E}{LOPE}
5   Composition of maestro is on at auditorium (6) SONATA [T]
9   Bowl from big party? (4,3) BLOW OUT {BOWL}* [RA]
10 Reportedly annoy hollow woman to a large degree (7) GREATLY (~grate){GREAT}{LadY|
11 Therefore block the handle (9) SOBRIQUET {SO}{BRIQUET}
12 Talk at length on Right labour group losing independence (3-2) RUN-ON {R}{UNiON}
13 Done with sweetheart shedding pounds (4) OVER lOVER
14 Trace Dahl lost in St. George's, Chennai (9) CATHEDRAL*
17 Stuffing Tamil leader's ready-mix preparation (9) TAXIDERMY {Ta..l}{READY+MIX}*
19 Frank to write order first (4) OPEN {O}{PEN}
23 Be up to church group (5) BATCH {BAT}{CH}
24 Desperate, endure scrap (4-5) LAST-DITCH {LAST}{DITCH}
25 A mother adopts principally urbane non-pro (7) AMATUER {A}{MAT{Ur...e}ER}
26 A new trouble, not big, but one more (7) ANOTHER {A}{N}{bOTHER}
27 Nymphs in publicity that is bland (6) DRYADS {DRY}{ADS}

28 Fellow's steady management around a celebration (5,3) FEAST DAY {F}{STEADY}* over {A}

DOWN
1   Like the finest, so put up fire-proof material (8) ASBESTOS {AS}{BEST}{SO<=}
2   Model gets foreign money in difficulty (7) TROUBLE {T}{ROUBLE}
3   Check up on joint without approval (4-2) LOOK-IN {LO{OK}IN}
4   Try to get information on what an insect may do (3,3,1,6) PUT OUT A FEELER [DD]
6   Supersede order I've dispatched (8) OVERRIDE*
7   Girl has a number for signal receiver (7) ANTENNA {AN{TEN}NA}
8   A US city individual? No matter who! (6) ANYONE {A}{NY}{ONE}
10 Take delivery of note, understand? (3,3,7) GET THE MESSAGE [DD]
15 Amusing person’s husband arrested and kept back (8) WITHHELD {WIT}{H}{HELD}
16 Thus a person is dashing, maybe (2,1,5) IN A HURRY [CD]
18 In reality two learners made way for right risk calculator (7) ACTUARY ACTUA(-ll+r)RY
20 Sent backward boy out and fixed (7) PATCHED (dis)PATCHED
21 Ace, with a follower, on bumpy road on the bus (6) ABOARD {A}{B}{ROAD*}
22 A professor has taken many extensions (3-3) ADD-ONS {A}{D{D}ON'S}

Reference List
Right = R, Pound = L, Order = O, Church = CE, Big = B, Publicity = AD, Fellow = F, Model = T, Husband = H, Learner = L, Boy = Sid, Many = D

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