Crossword for Wed, 20/Jul/2022

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Across
2: The short one may be drawn (5)

4: Leading Bolshevik holding the stage (7)

8: One giving evidence, if ignored, would be more snappish (9)

10: Links to some 7-down (5)

11: Cook, sorta! (5)

12: Cringingly escape around canopy (9)

13: Reportedly, guys take advantage of lists (5)

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

15: Reuniting gentry I broke up (7)

19: Property initially in annuity settlement survived estate tax (5)

21: Overly flattering, interminably grown-up and a conservative (9)

22: Ring around Louisiana and part of Florida (5)

24: Corpse apt to turn up in science fiction (5)

25: Fewer chant Sumo beaten (3,2,4)

26: Mr. Upton dressed, one suit being just like any other? (2-5)

27: Helga excels coming back with a two under par (5)
Down
1: Flower festival is pointless (5)

2: In a way, suffer from stain all around us (7)

3: Very loud inside during youngsters' kind of ball (7)

4: Sikh leader grovels or doodles! (7)

5: Cheaper oil, gas distributed in Island chains (13)

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

7: Add pantry to make dude! (9)

9: Bug found in examination and in a full going-over (10,3)

13: It's normal if evil?! (6, 3)

16: Booster involving risk brought to a halt early form of Voyager (7)

17: Adult party to entertain disheartened women (5-2)

18: Baby's things even discovered in past (7)

20: Law, say, constraining trade union leaders (7)

23: Spread hocus-pocus partly for this particular purpose (2,3)




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