Crossword for Thu, 17/Feb/2022

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Across
1: Field worker finding insect on vegetables (7)

4: Nice gal unusually well-behaved (7)

8: Foretold that the wine would be finished (9)

11: Just conservative (5)

12: People of all races in wild bar I own (7)

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

14: Technique for picking up new material? (5)

16: Song takes jibe at Chicago newspaper (7)

18: Choice bergamot subdues growler (7)

19: Indolence evident in Rowes Lothario (5)

21: With a new leader, huffier and more pompous (7)

22: Figure it can go to pieces (7)

24: Tender translator of runes (5)

25: Let loose on mower, he's the lord of the manor (9)

26: Beginning to send poor around north and south for support (7)

27: Sounds like Brazilian soccer player may make a good fisher (7)
Down
1: Fastener made from crumpled ripple pac (9)

2: Indict a sprinkling of reporters? (7)

3: Acid destroyed brace (5)

5: Measuring unusual flowers (9)

6: Beneficiary of ticket sales, in general (7)

7: Doll part, that is (5)

9: Thats sensible; has the eagle perhaps landed? (4-2-5)

10: Seduce husband-to-be in parlor (7, 4)

15: See Dennis, unfortunately, in poverty (9)

17: Long Rhine sequence in Wagner's work (9)

18: Conclude it was no place of intense heat (7)

20: Plant-based compound sprinkled on cigar (7)

21: Kicks watercraft (5)

23: Giant fish (5)




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