Crossword for Tue, 18/Jul/2023

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Across
1: Poet or old king on crest (9)

5: Loud den has style! (5)

8: No one told sister (3)

9: Toss a hammer into a nuclear accelerator! (4,7)

10: A cold fish embraces that woman's mortal weaknesses (8,5)

12: Frost to cover the cake (3)

13: Intruders bury proles in pieces (11).

17: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

19: Residue has scattered (3)

20: Challenge the bench in retaliation. (13)

23: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

25: Former name for joint audition (3)

26: Raptor is well under par (5)

27: Loses ones extraordinary flexibility (9)
Down
1: Prisoner with severe cramp (9)

2: A king involved in the French connection (7)

3: Funny dame getting red (5)

4: Aliens set off (3)

5: Loudly scourge and expose oneself (5)

6: Get with a Chicago threesome, the night before a big event (7)

7: Goes bad and accepts never-ending abuses of the system (5)

9: Time has corroded faithlessness (7)

11: Enter names - register only lists beginners (5)

14: Sailor takes gym class to slim down (5)

15: Too old for love - a woman, for example, rejected (7)

16: Large glasses used on ships (9)

18: Indulge artfully in dodging (7)

19: Oblique demand for a new church (7)

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

21: Right to possess an address (5)

22: Trunk and tangled roots (5)

24: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)




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