| Across 6 Heavy
silk fabric with a raised design (7)
7 Area in desert with sufficient water for plant growth (5)
9 Soft French cheese (4)
10 Ali Baba's magical command (4,6)
11 Tom ---, British playwright (8)
13 London suburb on the River Roding (6)
15 4,840 square yards (4)
17 Creator of Tintin (5)
18 Rudolf --, German Nazi leader (4)
19 Fruit with slippy skin (6)
20 From 1957 to the present (5,3)
23 British comic, a member of The Young Ones (4,6)
26 Loved by Leander (4)
27 Third planet from the sun (5)
28 Fred ---, dancing partner of Ginger (7)
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Down 1 Beetles
(10)
2 Eastern temple (6)
3 Edson Arantes do Nascimento (4)
4 Midsummer is one (8)
5 Egyptian goddess of fertility; the Thames at Oxford (4)
6 French flat cap (5)
8 Venetian cathedral (2,5)
12 Pub game (5)
14 Temperature scale (10)
16 The Eucharistic cup (7)
17 The Song of ---, a narrative poem by Longfellow (8)
21 John ---, cricket commentator (6)
22 Prickly yellow-flowered shrub (5)
24 Captain ---, of the Starship Enterprise (4)
25 First man (4)
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