Crossword for Thu, 20/Oct/2022

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Across
1: Her rash became more severe (7)

5: Compel compliance with printers measure for cable ends (7)

9: Oilwell fireman Red's commercial run (5)

10: Patience may be enjoyed by this person perhaps? (5-4)

11: Send back gangster's gun to get ID (3)

12: Thus might florin study a silly timekeeper (3-3,5)

14: Man sees bananas in a bunch (2,5)

16: Sixpence for big cheese? (1.1.1.)

17: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

18: Storm entropically providing misery (7)

21: Playwright rethinking copyright wrangle (4,7)

23: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

24: Comic's ROM crashed! Small world, isn't it? (9)

25: Do the young work for long? (5)

26: Moulded indicator of irrevocability (3-4)

27: Heads appearing strange in distorting lens (7)
Down
1: Overcome by disappointment from the rare bonk going awry (11)

2: Debate again, coming from behind and vaguely in the middle (7)

3: Wooded hillock forming part of Arthur's territory (5)

4: Tumultuous, so I tour around (7)

5: Sty? (7)

6: Can patriot make paver dither? (4-5)

7: Troop of monkeys around city garden spot (7)

8: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

13: With Starr finally out, Hyde's plan simply loses traction in a way (11)

15: Curiously, Maine's not an American state (9)

17: Save the forests regarding a series (7)

18: Gathering hype about coffee maker (7)

19: Chaps follow Grundy on island course (7)

20: Hikers' path around Virginia is hard work (7)

22: Flirted terribly, and on your example dated start-ups (5)

24: Backblock not all there (3)




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