Crossword for Sun, 24/Dec/2017

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Across
2: Deliver a sweetener to mix with your date? (5,4,4)

9: Crippled boy takes me in (5)

10: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

11: Jacket flap with label's centerpiece inverted? (5)

12: Surgical tool gutting curvy coquette (7)

13: Explosive device held by one failed candidate (7)

14: Training some smart little monkeys (9)

16: Frost to cover the cake (3)

17: Have bananas now (3)

18: Curse the mother country? (9)

21: Show attendant a part of the bible (7)

24: Which creatures are found in factions? (7)

25: Go in with singer Karen, forgetting fish (5)

26: Worthless even when recycled (3)

27: One-on-one court of some old Greeks (5)

28: Beat it and ran, for example, with Girl Scout ingredients (9,4)
Down
1: Beg like this - it's lawful (7)

2: Photographers arrived with noodles (9)

3: Senior citizen losing 500 toddlers at sea (7)

4: Private cabin, say, with space (9)

5: Polyamide used by many Londoners (5)

6: Sarah has friends from France on a Greek island (7)

7: Poplar is like a writer (5)

8: Man admitting setback for islanders (7)

15: Came back on a diet anew and wasted away (9)

16: Simpletons at home with no money (9)

17: Classical musician composing her opus (7)

18: Help to lift weight - this might show how (7)

19: Stranger is using and supplying (7)

20: Evita, for example, making false claim about American (7)

22: Swamp creature resting tail on a rocky outcrop (5)

23: Write off aggregate (5)




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