Crossword for Fri, 16/Dec/2022

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Across
1: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)

3: Friendly over age of consent? (9)

9: One later enters, like, with matching sides (11)

10: Leaders of Orioles and Rangers stick in the dugout? (3)

11: Turkish ruler appearing in a widely distributed album (5,4)

13: I love chewing up Mediterranean fruit (5)

14: Bright-sounding agenda touches on heavyweight legend (5,6)

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

16: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

18: Questionable realtor robs preacher (4,7)

20: Entice substitute to drink. (5)

21: Characters producing exit with cross? (9)

23: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)

24: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

27: Duck putting string on ancient peeper (9)

28: Looks like an eyesore, sounds like an eyesore (3)
Down
1: Fiction position (3)

2: Corn whiskey for the French King. (7)

3: A friend comes round to appease (5)

4: Conclude a recitation off-key (11)

5: Wander around inside territory (3)

6: Windbag has nothing on after dance? (7)

7: The last movement produces great passion (7)

8: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

11: Clearances for the first couple of characters to find answers. (11)

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

17: Hungarian composer on CD extra, perhaps, with Norwegian composer (7)

18: Visual quirk set in stone. (7)

19: Saves and secures stranger (7)

22: Worry about Democrat's chief staff group (5)

25: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

26: Non-clerical song (3)




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