Crossword for Sun, 14/Mar/2021

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Across
1: Turn four in vessel (5)

4: Stifle ill-arranged artist's arrangement (5,4)

9: Bury darling, having one of relatives read (9)

11: Fancy brush? (5)

12: Quite put out, doctor axes red tape (11)

13: I am to beat urge (7)

15: Marsupials cut up -- twice (7)

17: Eliminate veiled content in sex pun, generally (7)

18: Like cold chops without nuts (7)

19: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

24: Familiar King, now reign at its end (5)

25: Star Keanu ultimately involved with certain salespeople's backing (9)

26: Gray's line about young animals (9)

27: Check about a form of power (5)
Down
1: Proper to have a little sex? This gives a slanted view (5)

2: Latin lives of Evita explained within (5)

3: Sailor Paul in oilcloth (9)

5: Trainee repudiates closing plant? (5)

6: Famous pianist's inclination for vocalizing (5)

7: Cast light upon awfully tired aria (9)

8: Strangely, some limbs suffer from blood clots. (9)

10: Congressman Grant's adversary gobbles steak bone, getting stuffed (7)

13: Making key choice in sport (3,6)

14: Mixed a Popsicle with soda (5,4)

15: Draw one above Indian hut (7)

16: Makes a killing in Massachusetts land holdings (9)

20: California has an artificial waterway (5)

21: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)

22: Run away with Cockney stride (5)

23: Mineral springs start to moderate involuntary muscular contraction (5)




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