Crossword for Sat, 1/Jun/2024

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Across
1: Road without a pole (4)

4: Immediately placed in an awkward situation (2,3,4)

8: Enormous lady may damage clothes (7)

10: Language - one with a Latin derivation (7)

12: Change in ultimate diet for the evening? (9)

13: Old physician in sheltered church (5)

14: Gather together for a church service. (5)

15: Pack animal swallows a red candy (7)

18: Any number follow festival in the Orient (7)

19: Hazardous emanation from river used by a crime boss (5)

20: Getting old drink in silver container (5)

23: Country encircling one's country (9)

24: Suppressed and overturned, it's taken flight (7)

25: Carrie's telekinesis is more frightening (7)

26: They're hard to reconcile, Turkey Day displays featuring beef (9)

27: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

Down
1: 'Ransom'? Lame. Run 'Rocky I', 'II', 'III', etc. (5,8)

2: Smart coed disrupted party caucus (9)

3: In love with copper? Gone to give the needle? (9)

5: Diet, sir! Clergy upset with fat constituents (13)

6: Correspondence with meal I cooked (5)

7: Prepare canvas with a colour like red, blue or yellow? (5)

9: Swings needing repair by unknown stock gauge (4,4,5)

11: Free for all by lack of padlocked freight compartments (2,5,6)

16: Extra-radical worker getting tan (9)

17: Looking back inside at Rik's inimitable revealing outfit (9)

21: 'There the woman is!' exclaimed in a less friendly way (5)

22: Icy turning, for example, on top (5)





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