Crossword for Fri, 22/Oct/2021

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Across
1: Write off aggregate (5)

4: In which the players are top-ranking officers? (5,4)

8: Entice substitute to drink. (5)

9: Exercise is right for a one-time actor (9)

11: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)

12: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

13: Foreign car, in neutral, crashed (7)

15: Bury in the empty sepulcher, eventually (5)

16: Airborne without a trace of fear, reclining in plane (5)

18: A vagrant fishing-boat (7)

20: Period email feature (3)

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

23: Lands filled with soft-shelled creatures (9)

24: Not here? No, no! (5)

26: Win, or find an heir (9)

27: Part of stair is erect (5)
Down
1: Worthless even when recycled (3)

2: Glass part of lock (7)

3: Language making a comeback in modern Italy (5)

5: Rise as in throw, perhaps, showing fitness to fly (13)

6: Wanting lean candidates in favour (5,4)

7: Ceases running features about Republican in serious trouble (4,7)

9: Ships use up aid at sea; remain in a grave situation (4,2,7)

10: Man, and French Impressionist (5)

11: E.g., told story about cave-men (11)

14: The margin trade ordeal (9)

17: . . . before the last apprentice is put in the ground (5)

19: 'Old car stalls,' discloses again? (7)

22: Flower festival is pointless (5)

25: In fear of wheat head (3)




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