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Times 25895 - mind your D's and K's

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Solving time : 22:05 on the club timer but I cannot tell a lie - after about 5 minutes considering SKIPDAW, SLIPDAW and SKIDDAW for 8 down I ended up looking up the three words to find out which of them was really a mountain. Not sure I liked the clue in the end, since all three of those fit the possibility and with a proper noun (maybe it is very well known) there shouldn't be ambiguity in the wordplay. I should note I am not a crossword editor but I play one on blog from time to time.

There seems to be a lot of K's in the grid.

Away we go!

Across
1SUMMONED BY BELLS: got this from the definition but the wordplay is a long charade - SUM(the whole),MON(day),ED(journalist),BY(times),BELLS(rings)
9BORN-AGAIN: BA(graduate) containing OR,NAG(plague), then IN
10ADUKI: hidden - I have always seen this referred to as ADZUKI
11IN,DIG(like),O(chre)
12MAN OF GOD: MAN(staff) then G in (FOOD)*
13TOMATO: MAT in TOO
15DICKY BOW: opposites of strong (DICKY) and nautical stern (BOW)
18PUT ON ICE: PUT ON is stage, and then top off (kill/ICE)
19A(t),N(ight),TRIM(in order)
21OVERHAUL: O, then REV reversed, HAUL(spoils, as in spoils of war)
23ACUMEN: UM in ACE, (intuitio)N
26ET,HER
27TOLL(number of death),BOOTH(assassin of Lincoln)
28BUNKER MENTALITY: anagram of (LIBERTY,MEANT,N,UK)
 
Down
1SUBS,1ST
2MI(musical note),RED
3ORANG-UTAN: odd clue - "EU trade" here means take the E in ORANGE TAN and replace it with a U
4EDAM: or E-DAM
5BENJAMIN: N(note),J(judge) in BEAMIN(g)
6BEANO: or BE A NO
7LOUNGE BAR: double def
8SKIDDAW: SKID then WAD(roll, as in of money) reversed
14MOTHER HEN: anagram of RENT,HOME and (churc)H
16KING,COB,RA
17ACCUS(e),TOM: the pig thief would be "Tom, Tom the piper's son"
18PROVERB: PROVER(demonstrator) then BEATEN without EATEN
20MONTHLY: MON(the day that follows Sun) then L in THY
22HORDE: sounds like HOARD
24MAORI: a choice of MA OR I
25CLAN: remove E from CLEAN

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