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This puzzle from Marvin uses a Radio Times style grid, in that no number is shared by an across and a down clue. Hence a single list of clues is sufficient. It's a nice cryptic with a very clever gimmick, which should become apparent once the grid has been completed. There is an explanation of this on the solution page.

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CLUES
1
Midday food including a bit of wadding from which Apollo was shot, amongst many (6,3)
2 Typographic layout involving caryatids, possibly (8)
3 Cry out our quahog should go first (7)
4 Ask: was it turning too far right, symbolically? (8)
5 Much ballyhoo found at a fairground (4-2)
6 Slowly start to kill animals, causing row (5)
7 Jocular chap aboard cart (5)
8 Hard knock to light way of burning off paint, say (9)
9 Hold up! Don't go! (4)
10 Conscript's in conduit (6)
11 Wrongly put as "pimply", possibly? (8)
12 Whip hanky out – ta! (5,3)
13 Irish intimidators start to quail in this hot country (4)
14 "You twit," says Stan to comic pal? That's rash (9)
15 Shout out from a military building (7)
16 It's going round sun on tracks with a sort of thrombosis (8)
17 Dub carton "thing to ring from" (4,3)
18 Initially lacking in puns or good rational anagrams – must show what this crossword is (8)
19 Look into top of cranium for a mollusc (7)
20 Old autocrat not finishing crazy mix-up (4)
21 Tacky path? (6)
22 It throws Kitty a poor, untidy London taxi, initially (8)
23 Canopy's put aslant (4)
24 A position by a batsman is absurd (5)
25 Virtuous as a harpsichord (8)
26 Catalog fruity mix as "a standstill" (3,3)
27 Put shroud round capacity for a lavatory (9)
28 Vulgar jollity at Oxford? (5)

Solution to Puzzle 2 by Marvin