Crossword for Fri, 13/Oct/2023

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Across
1: Kidnaps sailors swimming around the Channel (7)

5: Ancient historian understood America (7)

8: Adjust to initially having little juice (5)

9: Old Italian composer Alessandro Mark left Tait injured (9)

12: Picks up job applicant documents (7)

14: Eskimo intuitions are half-developed (5)

15: State that may be so ideal for sap (5,8)

17: Defusing timer incorrectly can lead to this! (13)

18: Kind of money for a rare puree (5)

19: Drug matures thick soups (7)

22: Burial of radical author steeped in meaning (9)

24: The color of a letter from Greece with purple edges (5)

26: Problems from exchanging 1st double for a couple of triples (7)

27: Book half written by sculptor or composer (7)
Down
1: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

2: Miserable raise follows poor grade (5)

3: Fancies and gets hard around (5)

4: Call for help oddly stops (3)

5: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

6: Bring to a close with, 'Lunatic? Me? Lunatic?!' (9)

7: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

10: Booster involving risk brought to a halt early form of Voyager (7)

11: I'll be stuffed if I'll deal with him!. (11)

13: 7-down relic? (6,5)

15: Finicky person to note position we're in (7)

16: Color orange upset poet something terrible (5,4)

20: Swamp creature resting tail on a rocky outcrop (5)

21: Reliable noise (5)

23: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

25: Going after the final piece of puzzle for a very long time (3)




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