Crossword for Fri, 11/Mar/2022

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Across
1: Tag his shirt in order to discover if he's only a little bent. (11)

7: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

9: Think at length about lost planet, comet (11)

10: Start reducing salt? (3)

11: Ties braids without ribbons at the front (9)

12: Haley's book provides moral support (5)

13: Make an attempt at a basket weaving (4,1,4)

16: Rabbit (male) with nest of bunnies? (5)

17: We hear actor Paul is one on the way up (5)

19: Intoxicated with dances and drinks (9)

21: Adore inconstant nymph (5)

22: Got used to western city after it eliminated a lot of noise (7,2)

24: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)

25: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

26: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

27: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

Down
2: In service? Fire rifle (7)

3: Interstate trade is best (5)

4: Taste of beer and liquor with game (3-6)

5: Mother is outside with Muslim priests (5)

6: Grant loud colour (3)

7: Al Fresco is to do our cooking (7)

8: Black arts and demons concerned with Homer's issue? (4,7)

11: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

12: Boxer Max returned, holding heroin, for treatment (5)

14: Biting piece of chocolate with dry exterior (5)

15: Beauty held a label up as being the merest trifle (9)

18: Mountaineers drawing female inside hot springs (7)

20: Refined women suppressing desires, principally for boys (7)

22: Mystic eats piece of donut in ritual meal (5)

23: Old physician in sheltered church (5)

25: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)





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