Crossword for Sun, 21/Aug/2022

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Across
1: Learn and teach about grief (9)

6: Grill when involved in corruption (5)

9: Photographers showed up with noodle soup (9)

10: Depart from low overhang (5)

11: Movie star kind of hot for date (7)

13: Master strokes and coos in your ear (5)

14: Putter smeared with dark, sticky goo (5)

16: A good friend to union, radical is not doing it for money (7)

17: Don't repeat lyrics (7)

19: Attract fill-in worker by end of August (5)

21: Write off aggregate (5)

22: Where Handel wrote short measure on organ (7)

24: In favour of an outer garment for protection (5)

25: Defects called for a metal cache underfoot (5,4)

26: Raise streamlined submarine stabilizers! (5)

27: Remember, mine cries in distress (9)
Down
2: Spot stick-in-the-mud Republican with fan (7)

3: Sleepy returned it, blushing (5)

4: Sound practical perception is a normal feeling (11)

5: Going after the final piece of puzzle for a very long time (3)

6: Offering resistance, cattle run wild (9)

7: Usually regret about loss follows start of stint in AA (2,1,4)

8: Valuable discovery certain in luxury travel (8,5)

9: Challenge the bench in retaliation. (13)

12: Seduce husband-to-be in parlor (7, 4)

15: Gray's line about young animals (9)

18: For slimmers: food almost tasteless, initially, and costing nothing? (3-4)

20: Identified slugger around noon (7)

23: Expert standing in an area at the front of the stage (5)

25: In favor of echoing game call (3)




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