Crossword for Thu, 24/Dec/2020

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Across
1: Love on night shift (7)

5: Dispatched boxing champ--outstanding (7)

8: Turn over extra-strange IRS filing (3,6)

9: Blunder into tall African mammal, with no infrared (5)

10: Down by one shot (5)

11: Eddy's mother hugging Slater wildly (9)

13: Admire well-designed sceptre (7)

15: Sissy's fabric cleaner suggested by the Rev. Spooner (7)

16: Frank turned brown sitting on mountains (7)

19: A game stuffing ketchup in balloons (7)

21: Head of Immigration leads rare uprising in tiny travel plan (9)

22: He adopts park tree (5)

23: That terrific ingot has a sweetener (5)

24: Every other starlit fish starting search for little percussion instruments (9)

26: The olde bull's last moo's for daffodils or buttercups, e.g. (7)

27: Tutus can serve to conceal Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, say (7)
Down
1: Scale Ten after taxes (3)

2: Soundly folds belt, does evening wear (7)

3: Powerless to move, as shiner tremendously shows (5)

4: Good eater has more gut upsets (7)

5: Ray! Say lad, smile! (7)

6: Stabs at centre-left defences (7)

7: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

10: Mere chance of depression interrupting peace (11)

12: Small town, oddly, has room (5)

14: Weird eastern lake (5)

17: Insignificant trial includes six from old Rome (7)

18: Sheds last one carelessly (4-3)

19: I'd party wildly after hitting this? (3,4)

20: In the morning attract a large oil bottle (7)

22: Reportedly, guys take advantage of lists (5)

25: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)




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