Crossword for Thu, 16/Nov/2023

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Across
1: Batters consisting of partially digested food and semi-solids (7)

5: Hardy's first note about novel heroine: she's entertaining (7)

9: Minor change in the White House? (6-3-4)

10: The rate changed at movie house (7)

11: Bees encircling trash--back, over, and above (7)

13: Part of book covers ballpark legends, using reliable background sources (5)

15: Justify jingoism? (7)

17: Bring salvation to despised, rejected (7)

20: Discussed one who broadcasts mistake (5)

21: Small boat from County Clare, possibly (7)

22: Hole put in curtain by large cat (7)

24: Double profit repeatedly (5,3,5)

26: Alien contributed to Journal of Nutrition (7)

27: The old Queen was said to be a grizzly mother.(3-4)
Down
1: Wire fences on street for lawman (9)

2: Bobbed beneath in playful attempt to drown journalist. (6, 5)

3: Twilight: time for affair (5)

4: Box put on line for bird (7)

5: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)

6: Its neat for a vessel to have this appearance (9)

7: Sound of river crossing (3)

8: 'Pops' is very unhappy in retrospect (5)

11: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

12: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

14: Cabal resolved hot issue of headgear (9)

16: Set cruise-ship for the puritan (4-5)

18: I've lost struggle (3)

19: 'Rats!' snorted Dotty (7)

21: Intimidated, we tucked into fish (5)

23: American capital supplied plant (5)

24: Five kills one. (3)

25: Anyway - no! (3)




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