Across

1 Setter, so flipping healthy for extremely old one (10)

6 Junk needing charts on return journey (4)

9 Sects making reductions in expenditure saving a quid (5)

10 Sound of eye plucked is about ultimate in tabu in Roman novel (1,8)

12 Versus a saint — odd? C’est la vie, strangely for these guys (6,9)

14 A bit of a turkey attributed to parson at Christmas? (4)

15, 25 Trump will announce this momentous event (8,3)

19 Oiled and toe-in adjusted... (8)

20 ...part of Cadillac lubricated for RAC? (4)

23 Poisonous mushroom in gardening lot? Yes, unfortunately (10,5)

24 Heartless intimidation of the French couple at rock bottom (2,7)

26 Where one digests religious reading matter? (5)

27 Flirts, talking of your smile initially (4)

28 Given Greek punishment Socrates’d to suffer accepting one (10)

Down

1 Anglican party consumed by passion for Balkan state (9)

2 Levite’s son, I recycled boxes? (11)

3 Saint that’s Major or Minor in heaven filled with universal love from the start (6)

4 Prophet in jail? He is being punished (6)

5 Riverbed deposit, entirely uranium (VI) found on bottom, not top (8)

7 Greek character from Memphis (3)

8 You’d find me organising Semites’ escape, slaves originally (5)

11 Free? Unfortunately not for starters, say, bill coming up (6)

13 See Lesotho gain extraordinarily religious teachers (11)

16 Thanks editor, but not complete latitude accepted in columns (9)

17 Ran back line on board ship causing tangles (6)

  18,25 Ready, say, by implication for event shortly after Christmas? (3,5,3)

21 Annoying bedfellow dear? Er, on some embraces when tossing (6)

22 Pen taken round half of Latvia translated Latvian, say (6)

23 Perplexed Ted is believer denying epiphany (5)

25 See 15 across and 18 down

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