Crossword for Fri, 22/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Date for Roman candles to be ordered (7)

6: One who takes after beggarman (5)

8: Aliens' organization trailed by very important rebel (9)

9: Marry large bumpkin (5)

11: Partially affect a steak's flavor (5)

12: Record that it was to insult (2,3,4)

14: Cemetery's a serious place (9)

17: Solo, the pilot rises? No way (3)

18: Worthless even when recycled (3)

19: Convertible has odd bar in instrument panel (9)

20: Disillusioned with the tune not being broadcast (3,3,3)

23: Thick maple growing wild (5)

24: Year inside for undone expert (5)

26: Expelled for being extrovert? (6,3)

27: Small area of land for unchanging Chinese (5)

28: Tranquillises extremely senile escorts (7)
Down
1: Actor works on two dialects (5,8)

2: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

3: She's providing us with a minder (9)

4: We hear you cannot pay, so you can't smell. (9)

5: Got excited by unusual tulip (3,2)

6: Test limits of sexologist in assignation (5)

7: Provoke Church of Scotland's absent leader (3)

10: Teen unclothes poorly dressed diners (13)

13: Upset top duo; I went and confessed (5,2,2,2)

15: Perfume ingredient extracted from lamb ..... er, gristle (9)

16: Outline a principal overhaul (4,5)

21: Feeling Starsky's buddy has a change of heart (5)

22: One story is it's somewhat ticklish at heart (5)

25: However, you expect trouble at first (3)




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