Crossword for Fri, 20/May/2022

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Across
1: Residue has scattered (3)

3: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

9: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

10: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

11: Empty cell on mountain? Most ingenious! (9)

12: Scotsman turns to notice drifter (5)

13: Smear record colour - that one (9)

18: I clear imp in ruckus based on evidence (9)

21: Lived down low in damp (5)

23: Set out samovars for featured skits (4,5)

25: Behind and down and out (3)

26: Put hot cocoa out for someone glued to the TV (5,6)

27: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

28: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)
Down
1: Formic neutralises hydrochloric. (7)

2: Some wealthy women, I'm told, gossip about curves (9)

3: The old Queen was said to be a grizzly mother.(3-4)

4: Almost all the foliage has to go. (5)

5: Pictures capturing Ranger's first excellent baseball player (9)

6: English scenes reproduced for 'Nature' (7)

7: Point to friendly crowd (5)

8: Famously, Tony led astray (7)

14: Crank up front half of outhouse in Alabama, for example (4-5)

15: Determine Cartesian coordinates? (9)

16: Crazy bald guy in Beetle (7)

17: Frenzied recital piece (7)

19: Provisions made by the artist to get into shape for the course (7)

20: Miss important reference and get caught in a loop (7)

22: Gantry in Hilton Hotel, Mermaid Beach (5)

24: Trains without commanding officer and suffers (5)




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