1 Overly harsh code of laws (9)
6 Desert "trees" (5)
9 Is against (7)
10 Protests (7)
11 Nemesis (7)
12 A pike (7)
13 The blazing star plant (9)
15 Dance bar (5)
16 Reasoned judgment (5)
19 Arrangements of the body and limbs (9)
22 Sports associations (7)
23 Vocations (7)
25 A group of five (7)
26 Not public (7)
27 Concede (5)
28 Squeezed the throat of (9)
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1 Unpleasant fates (5)
2 A type of jar (7)
3 See (7)
4 Send out (5)
5 Beginners (9)
6 Inveigled (7)
7 Seals on a letter (7)
8 Pernicious (9)
13 Monologue (9)
14 Contraries (9)
17 A type of igneous rock (7)
18 Wooed (7)
20 Twisting (7)
21 Including everything (7)
23 Cavort (5)
24 Horse (5)