Crossword for Fri, 1/Mar/2024

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Across
1: Girl hatches subterfuge in prison tower (11)

9: Number observed with contest entry (9)

10: Just conservative (5)

11: Mousy girlfriend loses head and bellybutton (5)

12: Swine met end, tied and dyed (9)

14: Endless taping-over is unsuitable (5)

15: State control for Romanians (3,6)

18: There aren't any comebacks after such a poor performance. (2, 7)

19: I tear to pieces in a fury (5)

20: We tangled with this old kitchen cloth (4,5)

22: Ace girl gets it wrong (5)

23: Tender translator of runes (5)

25: Found jumbo rig in a teamster's parts (9)

27: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)
Down
1: Young boy capturing us with snapshot, initially incurring mistrust (9)

2: Notice has prospect of getting upper hand (9)

3: Mend a split state (11)

4: Fiction position (3)

5: Does it take two groups at the pole to produce birds? (4,5)

6: Start reducing salt? (3)

7: True side (5)

8: Saw palm down (5)

13: Arranged date in Cairo means extermination (11)

15: Working leader sobs bitterly after blemishes returned (5,4)

16: Frozen awkwardly, i.e. a tin man (9)

17: Solver, tossing and turning with sick pet, didn't wake up in time (9)

20: Ball mislaid? Caned (5)

21: Bit of a fight (5)

24: In fear of wheat head (3)

26: I shall be sick! (3)




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