Crossword for Thu, 1/Dec/2022

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Across
1: Sarcastic critic, alas drunk, missing bit of comedy (9)

5: Caught carrying oregano's essence in inhalers (5)

8: ... and soon it will be read as etc. (3,2,2)

9: Smart attempt to encircle a city (7)

10: Cleopatra and her court's quirky pet saying (9)

11: The time before the first woman (3)

12: Exchange recipe describing a small amount of relish on rolled up taco (11)

15: Clear initial rubbish in drain (3)

17: Gained a hearing (3)

18: Risk of pole womans end being upset after handy beer (11)

21: Half disapprove of old king (3)

22: Sailor Paul in oilcloth (9)

24: Get by heroes? It's unlikely (7)

25: Strange nectars induce dreamlike states. (7)

26: Write Dorothy's aunt into the motif (5)

27: Grows wrinkled (9)
Down
1: Tending in Southern California to fight straw man? (9)

2: Roosevelt's undergarment? (5)

3: Troop of monkeys around city garden spot (7)

4: A muskmelon or cola nut pa sliced (9)

5: Nearly nail half of veterans for childishness (7)

6: Instrument for beater caught with liquor (5,4)

7: Wind coils up (5)

9: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

13: English painter whose work is arresting ... (9)

14: Top cop gets into caper with skill from way down under (9)

16: Rejecting help, soldiers taking numbers for identification (9)

18: Red phone, e.g., is out of order in hotel (7)

19: Electronic man swallowed spring (7)

20: Property initially in annuity settlement survived estate tax (5)

22: Worthless even when recycled (3)

23: Fastens curls (5)




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