Crossword for Fri, 17/Feb/2023

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Across
1: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)

3: Criticise a computer analysis of famous passage (6,5)

8: Make known one pound increase after high school (7)

11: Tories put out after Liberal leader hangs around (7)

12: Stupidly sits in ice, snow with Packers fans? (13)

13: Shoos stray housecats (6 3)

16: Argue about something boring (5)

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

19: It's truly deep at sea, so they say (9)

20: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

24: Outfit wins Tet Offensive (7)

25: Trimmed complicated test (7)

26: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

27: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)
Down
1: Listening to playwright's baloney (5)

2: Its neat for a vessel to have this appearance (9)

4: Fruit found in Carmel only (5)

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

6: Requires reporting massages (5)

7: The French spirits lifted by light poet (3,6)

9: Barmaid slipped, leading to a spectacular disaster. (6, 7)

10: Nightwear and jersey top added in afterthought (3)

13: Ponders company portals embracing information technology (9)

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

15: Heavy metal group X (4)

17: Chap securing pad or new sponsor (9)

20: Away sick and lifeless (5)

21: Back in November, tilers had some measure of quantity (5)

22: Thumb Drum? (3)

23: Supplied guns in gendarme division (5)




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