Crossword for Fri, 23/Oct/2020

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Across
1: A muskmelon or cola nut pa sliced (9)

4: Bobby-Ray slashed coconut meat (5)

6: Mysterious obstetrician's remedy (7)

8: Almost useless nags (7)

10: Rooted in regressive muddleheaded isolation (5)

11: Tradesman confined in nurses embrace (9)

12: An idea to throw out ring away from home (3,2)

13: CEO Kane we agitated every Friday, as one example (4,1,4)

17: English poet holding us responsible for hold-up? (9)

18: Fancy brush? (5)

19: Arabs lost sneaky bird (9)

23: Eights had to race again, we hear, concerning fish spawn. (2, 3)

24: Little woman at her lowest point (7)

25: Unarm crook in order to go berserk (3,4)

26: One who regrets following initial tendencies is increasingly sincere (5)

27: Manager of Shanghai operation is one who is making an impact? (9)
Down
1: Deliver a sweetener to mix with your date? (5,4,4)

2: In a dance, little do plenty (9)

3: Good place for sniper for fill? (9)

4: Heretic repented, holding tissue (5)

5: Scheme I enter into direct (5)

7: Tranquillises extremely senile escorts (7)

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

9: Rap wave using scab? (6-7)

14: Syria going after nurse involved in overthrow; sticky stuff? (4,5)

15: A doped-up user cans pledge (9)

16: Something that may move a hammer to engineer a murder (7)

20: Do these central Africans prefer cuban turbans? (5)

21: Send back stopwatch, as an example (5)

22: Rohmer hiding unit of Resistance (3)




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