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28a. American butts?
SITTING TARGETS


23d. Words do have clout...and lots more!
VERBS

5d. Transplants obtained by bribery lead to scares
GRAFTS

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28a, A butt to Americans is their buttocks.
The butts is a term for part of a shooting range behind the targets.

don't know how to describe 28
butts are targets for archery, and also what americans call bottoms they sit on

23?

5 transplants as in plant grafts, bribery=graft, with the s from Scares

do/have/clout are all verbs....

5d, Transplants can be grafts.
Bribery is graft, and lead to scares is the letter "s".

Cheers everyone.
I think 23 was a very poor clue.

11a. A very early deity
AURORA

14a. Glittering Christopher had inner pain
SPANGLY

4d. Approvals following drama openings
NOOKS

24d. Came across a number employed in making roads
METAL

Parses for the above please.

11 not sure; AURORA is the dawn, but also the goddess of the dawn, but it seems the same definition twice

14 Christopher SLY is a Shakespearean character, around PANG for pain

4 NO is a Japaenes drama form, followed by OKs - approvals

24 MET A L (Roman 50); finished roads are known as "metalled roads"

Thanks chrisE, they all make sense. I guess 11 is just a double definition.

24a. Awkward situation when academic room's put next to a gym
SCRAP

12d. Pair holding English translation to be a misrepresentation
PERVERSION

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