Cryptic crossword

Friday's puzzle...

Across

1 What you may receive from the butcher if you can't make up your mind? (4,3,6)

10 Bits of fish used in Elizabethan dress (9)

11 Discover first tribal people (5)

12 Italian dish may droop in country road (7)

13 War-like Roman poet (7)

14 Nucleus of navy in bottom of boat (6)

16 Parroted arrangement at top of food chain (8)

18 Comic strip character is an 'indrance, we hear (4,4)

20 As crop is gathered in, get fruit from tree (6)

23 Give protection to a missing Arab in time (7)

24 Bedlam or their beneficiary (7)

26 Wake up or return to employment (5)

27 Conclude expression is instinctive as quoted (9)

28 Clean viral pet vigorously in upright position (8,5)

Down

2 Has contents of French hell (5)

3 Crisp knitwear? (7)

4 Special places hidden in Platonic Hesperides (6)

5 Money just used to get fine material (8)

6 Changed related composition (7)

7 Got a laird to replace combatant (9)

8 Perform as an organised march and have irresistible effect (3,4,1,5)

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9 Source of water put in a jamjar is in good condition, considering its age (4-9)

15 Bird with blushful complaint (3,6)

17 Like Carmen, for example, mixing drug into apricot pie (8)

19 Express awe in case of most admired (7)

21 Warm drink (7)

22 Singing high at first, being in the pink (6 )

25 Author of Jekyll and Hyde, for example, in Scots (5)

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