Crossword for Thu, 1/Oct/2020

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Across
1: Counter of delay! (5)

4: Under best Cajun treatment (9)

8: Leaf in fancy plate (5)

9: Something lacking in brief season (9)

11: Bill board reflected family meal extra (5,6)

12: Chatter about some pay-back (3)

13: In my greed I blessed food (7)

15: African leader reversed stance on fabled writer (5)

16: Complete western part of golf course (5)

18: Audible attempt to get clique cut in three (7)

20: Sister gets nothing, we hear (3)

21: E.g., told story about cave-men (11)

23: Nothing, absolutely (almost) nothing, disturbs cool guys' covers (9)

24: Carrying on thus, for some reason I create a sort of boom (5)

26: Model unpredictable dial to shake in natural disaster (5,4)

27: Removes from office and bags (5)
Down
1: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

2: Jenny adopted Bill (it's subject to change) (7)

3: April keeps providing material for a poet (5)

5: Thinks about frolicking like she's a sitcom actress (6,7)

6: Draw out statement that you dined at 2200 hrs (9)

7: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

9: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

10: Chump getting past in chasm (5)

11: Rejecting crew's work on board, you rest at the stern (8,3)

14: All the same, I lanced it, painfully (9)

17: Tiny weight once you're in (5)

19: Big man in charge of berg victim (7)

22: Sprinkles studs under reconstruction (5)

25: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)




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