Crossword for Tue, 13/Feb/2024

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Across
1: Neuters wrestle majority of such neuters (7)

4: Tapes note on particular kinds of trousers (7)

7: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)

9: Smells renovated doors (5)

10: Front men, we hear (5)

11: Sculpted a bust with large instruments (5)

12: One drunken referee returns to outskirts of zone of manure (9)

13: Leaders of Orioles and Rangers stick in the dugout? (3)

14: Playwright rethinking copyright wrangle (4,7)

16: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

18: Venomous enemy lurks in Caspians (3)

19: Tear down and show a lack of respect for Mickey (9)

21: Run over Martian explorer (5)

22: Measure of heat in the empty room (5)

23: 'Colossus' artist loses interest (5)

24: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)

26: Mix up, in Social Security, passes (7)

27: Ways of approaching a goddess without middlemen? (7)

Down
1: Therefore, finish off this bit of work (3)

2: Deliver a sweetener to mix with your date? (5,4,4)

3: Upset expression of surprise follows failure of comic take-off (5)

4: User brought back radio part (wrecked sound) to return to use (9)

5: Motor oil in garage contains disturbing sediment (7)

6: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

8: Coal remaining at the end of a month (5)

10: Location of cheating, fiercer gender (4,9)

11: E.g., told story about cave-men (11)

15: Ponders company portals embracing information technology (9)

17: Delay American writer in South Dakota (7)

18: Smithys workplace agreement not originally despicable, not totally! (5)

20: Out of context rather more than is necessary (5)

25: One may be transported by this kiss, it's said (3)





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