Crossword for Mon, 20/Nov/2023

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Across
2: Bring Father back to hang buckets on maples again (5)

5: A legendary string player, he joins us after turning professional (7)

9: Duck down as filler for your caps... (5)

10: Dance in Spooner's very cold prison (9)

11: Five Gaelic poems (5)

12: Explorer taking stuff back and beginning to observe game (5,4)

14: Again assemble woven rope rug (7)

16: Cold medicine's secret ingredients (7)

17: Author and actress receiving gold choker, originally (7)

19: Myopic liberal misread description of sporting ideal (7)

21: Cast update: Loy gave a superior performance (9)

22: Light up during fire sale (5)

24: Exercising self-control in Europe, for example (9)

26: Radio hosts drink little (5)

27: Broadcast by southern individual who likes felines? (7)

28: Face-off stopped and relieved the pressure (5)
Down
1: Stiff spelunker swallowed plug (7)

2: Point back to itself. (5)

3: Herb talked about the fourth dimension (5)

4: Celebration geared for retirement (6,5)

5: Choose to take the top off (3)

6: Old English mixed into edited cryptic shows exceptional maturity (9)

7: Boo, in case it's the end of the train (7)

8: Italian gentlemen's token or piece of silver (7)

13: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

15: Believer in esoteric powers is joining quasi-religious group in October (9)

17: Church organ initially secures selections (7)

18: Aerial worker Anne on the way up (7)

20: City Auto Club's closing, mired in debt (7)

22: Fastens curls (5)

23: Sensible and articulate (5)

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




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