Exa

ACROSS
7 Progress made by club member (5)
8 Fashion diva's fit and proper (9)
10 Failure in business after film actor retires (6)
11 Got into bed with a criminal (8)
12 Kid is bound to find something to slide on (8)
13 Attain heroin in slum area (6)
14 Snake correctly named by the charmer at last (7)
16 Endless longing for drug (7)
20 Messages them abuses right away (6)
23 Source of beautiful aroma is possibly this (8)
25 Contacted Harry's buddy by telephone to know where potions are brewed (8)
26 Way a jerk is resting (6)
27 British Party head's being audacious (9)
28 Crazy about electronic rhythms (5)

DOWN
1 Extremely useful cooking item purchased at last (8)
2 Release energy on purpose (8)
3 Well-read journalists welcome to stay (7)
4 Very unusual seating times (8)
5 Ridicule father outside a bar (6)
6 Right time to go after cocaine user (6)
9 Very upset after start of big fire (4)
15 Cherish being in her pants (8)
17 Tale I'd spread about child forgetting name is unusual (8)
18 Train set in motion (8)
19 Dedicated trainees losing interest in work (7)
21 Small male bird changing direction (6)
22 One racy novel showing intimacy (2,4)
24 Book hotel to hold a small party (4)

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