Crossword for Thu, 16/Dec/2021

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Across
2: Cheaper oil, gas distributed in Island chains (13)

7: Raise streamlined submarine stabilizers! (5)

8: Copy hasn't disturbed yes-man (9)

11: Decisive curl twisting around spy body (7)

12: Thirteenth in a series, ER's about an Aussie racketeer who took repeated slams? (7)

14: Aliens work infrared thrust (7)

15: Mum gets customers some guns (7)

17: Reuniting gentry I broke up (7)

20: One eating little head of lettuce held by cook in hot water (7)

22: Send in the beer, Saint Peter (7)

23: Debate again, coming from behind and vaguely in the middle (7)

24: Bird dog bites boisterous lad (4,5)

26: Homer's travail: 'I don't finish daily retreat.' (5)

27: Fine legs confused emotions (5,8)
Down
1: Explain a mackerel manoeuvre (4,5)

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

3: Inept casino confused the issue (4,2,5)

4: Clannish discourtesy cut short a Radical (7)

5: Venomous enemy lurks in Caspians (3)

6: Posed in glossy fabric (5)

9: Third stack of paper rises to the top. (5)

10: I'll scream, 'Gangway!' (5)

13: Exegesis of clue an idiot misunderstood (11)

16: Giving up silly run, Reds tack on a couple of errors (9)

18: Giant fish (5)

19: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

20: Certainly, Mr. Gore welcoming Republican is bizarre (7)

21: Talk about food for the birds (7)

22: Pathological bumbler holds a record (5)

25: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)




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