Crossword for Sat, 21/Oct/2023

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Across
1: A chair may be material (5)

4: Caribbean tourists love to do this as dolphin cavorts (6-3)

9: End inner-value conversion in UK taxes (6,7)

11: Courier parting from Essen, Germany (9)

12: Wool is leading stocking fabric (5)

13: Haley's book provides moral support (5)

14: We hear he pillaged while he played. (5)

16: Chatter about some pay-back (3)

18: Pass mould (3)

19: It may be used in candy or brought back in taxi (5)

20: Ray is a guy who just loafs around, so people say (5)

21: Message obscured by cinema illumination (5)

23: At last eating, I'm finally getting better (2,3,4)

24: Swings needing repair by unknown stock gauge (4,4,5)

26: Makes teenagers unruly (9)

27: Chump getting past in chasm (5)
Down
1: Mime, frolicking in small piece, quietly sparkled (9)

2: Select Poe novel and condense (9)

3: Crazy to clean sons in awful mess (11)

5: Organ is stable until the end (5)

6: Sister gets nothing, we hear (3)

7: Lists scoundrels (5)

8: Analyze rotten pears (5)

10: Typical! Pull over in back (7)

12: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

15: An Asian making money carrying a letter from Greece (7)

16: Dee Star danced in two clubs recently (9)

17: They're hard to reconcile, Turkey Day displays featuring beef (9)

21: Looking at a little monkey in glee (5)

22: Britannia - she never has blanched (5)

23: Start reorganizing notes (5)

25: Neither's partner participated in an orchestra (3)




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