Crossword for Wed, 23/Dec/2020

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Across
1: Long-winded poem about Bob, for the most part (7)

4: Psychic agonizes about port in the Midwest (7)

7: Smaller golfer (7)

9: Hun paid out for French prince (7)

11: Closest home receives attention (7)

12: Reportedly examine certain sports car (5)

13: Beware of these they show the funny side of the month! (4,2,5)

15: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

16: Emergency room stocks one sensitive organ (3)

18: Playwright rethinking copyright wrangle (4,7)

22: Arenas almost filling with the hooter (5)

24: The last movement produces great passion (7)

25: I left bear in pain it was the curdled milk! (7)

26: Half-finished meal precedes my look back at sacred mountain (7)

27: Also, pay somewhat slowly (7)

28: Young hawks viciously eat legs (7)
Down
1: A date in February: good time for a massacre? (10,3)

2: Drag inside remains of the struggle for survival (3,4)

3: Seabird coming back around by mistake (7)

4: Body of bounder having to swear (7)

5: Eskimo intuitions are half-developed (5)

6: Get with a Chicago threesome, the night before a big event (7)

8: Told fib with particular relaxation (3,4)

10: Let not passion sway philosophers (3-10)

14: Going unknown after damage to accord (7)

17: TV's Ellen, upset after last two bits edited out, broke contract (7)

19: 2 Be in control, name the photos! (4,3,5)

20: Sty? (7)

21: Caught sight of leaderless French church embracing a politician. (7)

23: Slight urge at night (5)




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