Crossword for Sat, 22/Feb/2020

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Across
1: Bird seen in springtime? Nonsense! (7)

5: Loathes key English exams (7)

8: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

9: Mend a split state (11)

11: Tar mess contaminated rivers (7)

12: Scrimmage as Confederate general introduces himself to Tarzan? (5)

13: Improve me back end (5)

15: Peg's put on jeans, and airs (9)

17: Show sedated one giving details (9)

18: Hangs ten vassals at hearing (5)

19: Gag about alien in Royal Childrens Hospital (5)

21: Pair are only a short distance from the dance (3-4)

24: Support sign for subordinates (11)

25: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

26: Strip of soil bearing large heads of Belgian endive (7)

27: Apt trial for those said to survive (7)
Down
1: Notes spent in Germany (5)

2: Beer, fit for a king, is served up (5)

3: He explored star (7,6)

4: Pulls Americans (5)

5: Imagine 500 papers in a bundle (5)

6: Win, or find an heir (9)

7: Snarling assistant to devil worshipers (9)

10: See its violent broadcast? (10,3)

13: Shocked ensemble leader with ascending note during concert (9)

14: I clear imp in ruckus based on evidence (9)

15: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

16: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

20: Disturb earth at centre (29 for your love?) (5)

21: One who takes after beggarman (5)

22: A journey to the east? What nonsense! (5)

23: Scheme I enter into direct (5)




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