Crossword for Sun, 21/Jan/2024

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Across
1: Pitcher's debut in strikeout is exhausting (9)

6: Common people loved Arbuckle's zany antics -- initially (5)

9: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

10: Bunyan gets into Moores wine bottles (9)

11: Small boat from County Clare, possibly (7)

13: Explosive device held by one failed candidate (7)

14: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

15: T.V. picture is said to produce an image that's larger than life. (9)

18: Share chain of hills with pear tree percher? (9)

21: Bloody bored inside (3)

22: Points about dangerous wires can invigorate. (7)

24: Bats staying in dark (7)

25: Notice has prospect of getting upper hand (9)

26: Compete with life in France (3)

27: Bargain holds principal leftovers for French room (5)

28: Civil libertarian sends building uprights (4,5)
Down
1: Incorrectly read pitch for a song (4,5)

2: Itinerant labor packing fruit for Great White Hunter? (5,4)

3: Encourage horse led with direction. (3)

4: Was resident hidden in wild net? (7)

5: No time for metal in name only (7)

6: Celebration geared for retirement (6,5)

7: Britannia - she never has blanched (5)

8: I'll scream, 'Gangway!' (5)

12: Invention to trick four into a stupor (11)

16: Elderly sundials. (3, 6)

17: Bushes put the kibosh on Reno's deal (9)

19: Funny men smothered in dismal country (7)

20: Any number follow festival in the Orient (7)

22: Maxes out tests (5)

23: Either way, it's flat (5)

26: Sixpence for big cheese? (1.1.1.)




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