1. Smooth and white (9)
6. Lacquer ingredient (5)
9. Molasses (7)
10. Propriety (7)
11. Music with a syncopated melody (7)
12. Alien (7)
13. Ceramic ware (9)
15. Brusque (5)
16. Helped (5)
19. Brilliantly (9)
22. Reporter (7)
23. Long pins used to hold meat (7)
25. Against the law (7)
26. Imperative (7)
27. Unit of capacitance (5)
28. Villainous (9)
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2. Retaliator (7)
3. A historical depository (7)
4. Not those (5)
5. Gave a new meaning to (9)
6. A passage selected from a larger work (7)
7. Not later (7)
8. To an exceedingly great extent (9)
13. Complainant (9)
14. Epinephrin (9)
17. Laggard (7)
18. A person with great powers and abilities (7)
20. Artist's workroom (7)
21. To that (7)
23. Bundle (5)
24. Locations (5)