Crossword for Tue, 16/Apr/2024

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Across
2: Requires five kills, or a single accurate shot. (3)

4: Cue involving one rest (9)

8: Tom Cruise playing an outfitter (9)

9: Paradise without second shelter? (5)

11: Shes said to be funambulists best friend (7)

12: Short measure and light weight, say (7)

13: Convertible has odd bar in instrument panel (9)

15: Short line in letter back-fires (5)

16: Bracing sea air! Love the place. (5)

18: Unmatched on plainer work (9)

20: Not many cooked? Just the opposite (7)

22: Spin broken shingle (7)

23: Old physician in sheltered church (5)

25: A requirement to supply food (9)

26: Mother loiters and pretends to be ill (9)

27: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)
Down
1: Tidy up and clean floor finally and decisively (4,3,3,3)

2: Sanctions mailed through fool (7)

3: Mix tequila? Be fair! (9)

4: Throw a fit as ice is tossed in shower (5,4)

5: Type of code for hiding characters in telegram or secrets (5)

6: Equips for attacks (4)

7: More luxurious eatery accommodates six (7)

10: We hear you require complete articles for this royal thriller. (7,6)

14: Suspicious nag, roused, is apt to make trouble (9)

15: Paradise, perhaps, where rails hang askew (7-2)

17: Float me a loan covering breakfast, perhaps (7)

19: Look into deed, if I certify structure (7)

21: He adopts park tree (5)

24: Polygraph unexpectedly traps vandal (3)




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