Crossword for Wed, 15/Jul/2020

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Across
1: Fly from Arab's condemnation (7)

5: Boys terse brief for pearl producers (7)

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

9: Cleaning aid possessed by Fragonard (3)

12: 3-down said Sir, I have these! (5,4,4)

13: A Hollywood star upset about paparazzi hub in crude social event (6,5)

14: Sound of river crossing (3)

15: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

17: Exchange recipe describing a small amount of relish on rolled up taco (11)

21: Ships use up aid at sea; remain in a grave situation (4,2,7)

23: Heavy metal group X (4)

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

26: The French inheritance given up by a former French colony (7)

27: Docks impair one North America subdivision at first (7)

Down
1: Is Pat suitable? (3)

2: To fight sunburn, he faced pain unflinchingly. (7)

3: Watch, say (7)

4: Duck's primary seducer! (5)

5: Uncovered some letters written back in Sumerian epoch (4-3)

6: Please start to sing at one San Francisco club (7)

7: One true turning on the way (2,5)

10: Duck putting string on ancient peeper (9)

11: Lada, for example, gets favourite treatment for VIPs (3,6)

16: Stand up funny as partner to a broom? (7)

17: Clobbering out in boxing venue (7)

18: Will addition show 100 + 0 + 500 + 99 + 49? (7)

19: British actor in Rocky VII role (7)

20: Refuse graduate upgraded mark (7)

22: Di returned to me in France: back for the turn of phrase. (5)

25: Aliens set off (3)





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