Crossword for Sun, 17/Mar/2024

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Across
1: I renew one TV in a complicated way to get an oral examination (9)

6: Tends to scare silly (5)

9: Fling an item of furniture (3,5,5)

10: A group performing with energy 'The Untouchables' e.g. (5)

12: Wildly game sycophant heard 16-downs successors (9)

13: New York decries eccentric period of medical training (9)

15: Dating from birth in South African province (5)

16: Twisted like a Melbourne suburb (5)

18: Proof of intoxication (9)

22: Flirt with redhead, landing one in the frying pan (9)

23: Mature writer beyond racy, impertinent introductions (5)

24: Uncouth chaps met Engel under stress. (4,9)

26: $100 accepted by tart in buff (5)

27: Always heading off without getting paid (9)
Down
2: Draw the knot (3)

3: Reportedly pull down more money at work (5)

4: Popular buzz over an animal (7)

5: Pair of witnesses' mostly smooth transfer may end with Tony Soprano, possibly (7)

6: Bird is short distance behind husks of wheat (9)

7: Defence work to smell a rat all over again (7)

8: Observe - we are hearing Snout's presentation for the main defence (3,4)

9: Madison's statue (5)

11: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)

14: Our Foreign Minister embraced German, and in his own country (4,5)

16: Unpopular cad escorted around shopping malls (7)

17: Look! Car wrecked propeller holder (7)

18: The country was against some guarantors. (7)

19: Leans inside empty case to scrub (7)

20: Lick up pal (3)

21: Accepted rules for an inside con (5)

23: April keeps providing material for a poet (5)

25: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)




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