Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 14/08/15

Friday’s puzzle
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ACROSS

1 A few to return to her final call? Not now (4,5,4)

10 Begin hour of harassing a person in our street (9)

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11 Search England for deep valley found there (5)

12 Dog from shady New Jersey island (7)

13 Electronic images in 151 sections (4,3)

14 Make up for not being filmed (6)

16 Saint played with bent dice, but … (8)

18 … board game reply unlikely to vex men (4,4)

20 Find a place for gig, say, in street (6)

23 Hold breath underneath bed when this is heard? (7)

24 Confront a riot contained within Canadian city (7)

26 Goes out with fruit (5)

27 Think about plan to to go to town in Easter Ross (9)

28 Old bent tanner exchanged by author in the Potteries (6,7)

DOWN

2 Deaths column – old boys seize on it! (5)

3 Improve eastern limits of Chinese people’s church (7)

4 Original reason to be introduced to subject of Cancer, say (6)

5 Adds bells and whistles to make hers nice (8)

6 Heard to nail slate where it can be touched (7)

7 Breast-feeding mother left son (9)

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8 Gloomily oblivious in a den full of mahogany, perhaps (2,1,5,5)

9 Reach the far end of Ardnamurchan, for example, but don’t spin it out (3,2,3,5)

15 Wilde’s unspeakable pursuer to puzzle and confuse the run (9)

17 Standing business cost looming above me (8)

19 Fashions to be seen in Californian city (7)

21 Check performed about last service of old soldier (7)

22 Hit ego is the rough way to thwart (6)

25 Display sensitivity about performance (5)

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