Crossword for Sat, 17/Feb/2024

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Across
1: Later round without an opponent (3)

3: Balls thrown at gophers (9)

8: Small holes around big shoes, trainers and clogs initially create stumbling blocks (9).

9: Starts to read each chapter after pausing for review (5)

11: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)

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

13: Determined attack on a moribund collection (4,3)

15: Crazy macabre American authors outside making perfumed hair applications (7)

16: Lets stand on a cowboy hat (7)

18: Styli nearly unnecessary (7)

20: Weapons to attack BS, involving way with words (11)

22: Thumb Drum? (3)

24: Alien live around Glacial Ridge? (5)

25: Acknowledging access (9)

26: Flower - say, in Victoria's province - to raise (9)

27: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)
Down
1: Tolerate small stream (5)

2: Lease bad tripod (5)

3: Good girls in spectacles (7)

4: Burial place of a Kennedy girl, not an Askew (9)

5: Comes last in frightfully easy assessment (5)

6: Valor of Homer is incredible (7)

7: Climbers in tumbling tailspins (9)

10: Give Adele a seat in said fortress (7)

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

14: Flower making a comeback in a phenomenal display (7)

15: Hunk from Japan or a Micronesian broad (9)

17: Most distressing point about dead saint (7)

19: Pauses awkwardly after error but steadies nerves (5,2)

21: Religious man rumoured to have been taken in by a whopper such as this. (5)

22: Your leg? (5)

23: Scotsman to notice fundamental singular metaphysical entity (5)




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