Grid Clues (Cryptic)

1. Bookbag support carries a gun. (9)
6. Instruct Blackbeard. (5)
9. Beams from laser after shots. (7)
10. He raises a glass to a flower. (7)
11. Chopped liver and beef! (4)
12. I step in spilled aspic here on rugs. (10)
14. Beginning of poison letter from Greece contained rubs and bleaches. (9)
15. Start throwing stone. (5)
17. Huntress and frequent submitter held by prosecutor. (5)
18. Singer Amy sets fire to windows overhead. (9)
21. Drop current debts with errors. (10)
23. Technical spaceship left health food. (4)
25. Auditor's closing off upper limit. (7)
26. Guard has ID badge on backwards. (7)
27. Famed boxer pounds on sty. (5)
28. Sheriff sharpens audio equipment. (8)

Down

1. Noise from scrapyard guard near disassembled Cherokee draws mixologist. (7)
2. California party sends up broadcast from diner. (9)
3. Slip and listen to classmate? (4)
4. Could odd celebrity inside get dessert? (7)
5. Pieces of writing resist a rewrite. (7)
6. To hold smoke up, bug has bad news and good news? (10)
7. Prison without a top story. (5)
8. He darts around firm. (4-3)
13. Dig former warning on charged particle (not electron). (10)
16. Rough, macho son takes on large headmaster. (9)
17. Shortfall is handy around here in France. (7)
18. One could take an hour to get roofing tile. (7)
19. The reader without a rage is not as old. (7)
20. Stares at small babies numbering five. (7)
22. Privates' entry commands no glory, initially. (5)
24. Sorceress loses her head over irritation. (4)

Grid Clues for Pushed Too Far (Unconventional)

1. Extremely clever
6. Theme
9. Judgment against a plaintiff for failing to present a valid case
10. Last part of chess match
11. Baby beef
12. Cheers regulars and others
14. Poked fun at
15. Stoneworker
17. It's wasteful?
18. Canopy
21. Baywatch characters
23. Snakes like the one that killed Cleopatra
25. Strange
26. Dirty, rotten (hyph.)
27. Ivory sources
28. By-law

Down

1. Macabre kind of story (2 wds.)
2. French police force
3. A Western gathering? (hyph.)
4. A Western non-gathering? (2 wds.)
5. Smelly
6. Subject of three laws
7. A capital idea by some Canadians?
8. Winter, to the swimsuit industry (hyph.)
13. Models (2 wds.)
16. Item in a silverware drawer (2 wds.)
17. Kind of fish
18. Sugar pill
19. Filled (with)
20. Nature
22. Makes flinch
24. Operatic bit part?

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