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[Saarang 2008, Daily Crossword: Day Three]

1a. He's paid ripe squash to lock the one that owns (12)
1d. A fruit for the novelist (4)
2. City where lip may love romantically (7)
3. Steer under alcohol and brought down to nil (5)
4. Oriental doesn't finish back the festive decoration item
(6, 3)
5. Dominates to dismiss a couple of points (5)
6. Hit a cop -- so become one who doesn't care for norms (9)
7. Bakery in which one can eat, sip and rise to burp (10)
8. African is thus on the island (6)
9. Greek character uses sly tactics (7)
10. Bird not in fashion came back on zero (4, 3)
11. Immaculate son without a vessel (8)
12. Stones in ring hit back (5)
13. Does he place his end on the field? (4-6)
14. Herbivore doing well with a number (5)
15. How big reportedly beneath one tail wagging to incline (9)
16. English statesman possesses one zone on left underscore (9)
17. Reflected, decapitated, embezzled (9)
18. Dull arc light glimmers with electron absorption (9)
19. Tesla about publicity steps (6)
20. Best man exits the inside frontiers of Hawaii island (5)
21. Gives charge, so one is pissed off (7)
22. Radiation that Becquerel emitted disguises the resin (5)
23a. Helping after everything is complete (3-5)
23d. Prefix for English gal on coils (5)
24. Convex molding seen in course on Asimovology (5)
25. Name concealed immediately (4)
26. Maliciously dip dung in food (7)
27. A comic twin also known for 1d 26 (7)
28. Concur with near relation for distant relation (6, 6)