Crossword for Fri, 12/Jan/2024

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Across
1: After harvest fruit is seen again (9)

6: It may be used in candy or brought back in taxi (5)

9: Patience may be enjoyed by this person perhaps? (5-4)

10: Get into the archeology scene. (3)

11: Schoolchildren made to come back on Saturday make mistakes (4-3)

13: Violent outburst in Arizona city street (7)

14: Be awarded, for example, girl's stemware (9)

15: African region of birth (5)

17: March follower off with pair left behind (5)

18: Actress Ann admits painting one's sorrow (9)

19: A good friend to union, radical is not doing it for money (7)

21: He was called to defend complicated Fed rate (7)

23: Cook small fish. (3)

24: Shed light on strange clue I'm seeing (9)

26: Splay out and make tremble (5)

27: Unfallen in gradual encirclement of city! (9)
Down
1: Sculpted torso brings cheers (5)

2: Requires five kills, or a single accurate shot. (3)

3: Aunt Peg really messed up the cheap seats (6,7)

4: Toss a hammer into a nuclear accelerator! (4,7)

5: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

7: Tramp and rake over green (5)

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

10: Devil and saint share presentation (13)

12: Private dinner starts late (5)

13: Drunkard turns up near beach, reversing new habit, to sleep fitfully (4,3,4)

14: Loud noise covers a little line by Bette Davis (4,1,4)

16: Silent, cat backs away from it (5)

20: Very bad, but permissible, to dismiss counsel, ultimately (5)

22: Improve me back end (5)

24: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

25: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)




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