Crossword for Mon, 16/Apr/2018

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Across
1: Lignite with low carbon content (5,4)

4: The cow may do this in the local veterinary yard (5)

7: Actor works on two dialects (5,8)

10: I left terminus, breaking a bone (7)

11: Fiction position (3)

12: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

13: Uncompromising joke about Ms. Hayworth (7)

14: Bar shows low returns after first of the month (7)

16: Big apes with degree benefits (7)

18: Seal simpers forlornly (7)

21: I've lost struggle (3)

23: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

24: Eminent performer in some art form (7)

25: Challenge the bench in retaliation. (13)

26: Midday change (5)

27: Who smuggled the odd athlete? (3,6)

Down
1: Eat or drink after the dollar improves (5,2)

2: Color orange upset poet something terrible (5,4)

3: Something good made by dwarf barber, perhaps! (6,7)

4: Couples posed for an intimate snapshot (5-2)

5: Many sound prospects for prospectors (5)

6: Witty remark, for example, about constant batterer (7)

8: Rule for finding direction between-times? (5)

9: Runner or dramatist in play (13)

15: Prepare too much for apparent downpour (9)

16: German state in which Brian almost entertains a girl (7)

17: Moving round to booming (7)

19: Fold suit and undershirt (5)

20: Supplier of defective rockets (7)

22: Host seems clever, off and on (5)





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