Crossword for Sat, 16/Oct/2021

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Across
1: Healthy again, adored having company (9)

6: Instrument on top of tree or shrub (5)

9: Emblem of sovereignty that was a quarter-pounder? (5)

10: Ill-advised report's first printed in bold (9)

11: Lead around other green (7)

13: Hell, he's got the upper hand in tennis (5)

14: Determination: we're not finished detaining sick P.O.W. (9)

16: Tramp and rake over green (5)

17: Drive off returning outcast (5)

18: Shortened lingerie test sexual attraction (9)

20: Proficient in arithmetic, starting with short division (5)

22: Pal obtains rations (7)

25: Limits of Indonesian dictator lacking true measure of economy (9)

26: Suitable position to occupy in back with revolutionary (5)

27: Hangs ten vassals at hearing (5)

28: Mozzie disturbs lone sheep (9)
Down
1: Go over the highlights of a racehorse's comeback (5)

2: Appropriate work in relaxing place (2-3)

3: 23% of Scandinavians backing leaders (3)

4: Colorful spectrum to distort brain - ow! (7)

5: To discover how far in they were, he thumped roughly without hesitation. (5)

6: A favourite car of Seattle natives. (11)

7: Sigh in the midst of plain neglect (9)

8: 'No to sobriety!' -- a cry going to produce unfortunate reputation (9)

12: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

14: Little jumpers are almost always gold. (9)

15: European arrangement between the French and the German (9)

19: Measure drinking area and leave order of prohibition (7)

21: Brightly-colored tropical fish tries eating the remaining algae, at first (5)

23: Best Southern general retreats riding cross-country (5)

24: Casts off shacks (5)

26: Solo, the pilot rises? No way (3)




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