Across
| 1 | Per Rev. Spooner, tend to the pet cat for special recognition (3,2,3,4) |
| 9 | Ponders company portals embracing information technology (9) |
| 10 | Gardener's concoction left in a lot (5) |
| 11 | Children nicely holding back secret (5) |
| 12 | Crazy to signal a desire for the old days (9) |
| 13 | Doctor tries cigar for old people (10) |
| 16 | Bundle of money to get out of jail, it's said (4) |
| 18 | Emotionally affect one leaving film (4) |
| 19 | Clean caper around September 1st (10) |
| 22 | Plantation divided by one true sign of trouble (4,5) |
| 24 | Partially affect a steak's flavor (5) |
| 26 | Technique for picking up new material? (5) |
| 27 | Kowtow endlessly, awfully neglectful (9) |
| 28 | Lacking prescience, she'd got shirt tangled (12) |
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Down
| 1 | Complaining ruler gets expression of disgust (7) |
| 2 | Mostly, you drink with mystic (5; var.) |
| 3 | Rash brute jumping in tree (8) |
| 4 | Stranger, in turn, had an accident (3-3-3) |
| 5 | Examples of containers (5) |
| 6 | Prowler starts to take one's most cherished asset: tranquility (6) |
| 7 | Standard tirade is outrageous (8) |
| 8 | Discussed Ravel's musical passage (6) |
| 14 | Adoring First Lady runs into band (8) |
| 15 | Chicago hoodlums capturing 1,000 squirrels (9) |
| 17 | Quibble with gift poet arranged (8) |
| 18 | Quiet pack animal eats very loudly (6) |
| 20 | He acted badly and broke the rules (7) |
| 21 | Start meal around one (6) |
| 23 | Upset Texas baseball player after the first (5) |
| 25 | Fish in sea initially react to heat, perhaps (5) |
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