Crossword for Sun, 25/Feb/2024

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Across
1: Pitchers were transported south (5)

4: Like Nadia or Olga, my acting's affected (9)

8: Heads of Asian countries hope the United Nations gives attention to Germany (7)

9: Uncompromising joke about Ms. Hayworth (7)

10: Sound measure when Bec lied badly (7)

11: Also, pay somewhat slowly (7)

13: April keeps providing material for a poet (5)

14: This behaviour causes sin! (9)

16: Two characters together, drunk, hit PhD on the third of August (9)

18: Prohibited key rings (5)

20: A graduate may work for a first degree and then run away (7)

22: Terribly huge boy outside showed amusement (7)

24: Arrogantly pry into loud disruption? Just the opposite! (7)

26: Mid-East region is a metier confused (7)

27: Backing Brown University comeback, of course (9)

28: Priestess betrays Sen. Kefauver (5)
Down
1: Antelope found in oriental country.(5

2: Upright drunk's interjection interrupts the others briefly (7)

3: Second chunkiest is shortest and thickest (9)

4: I'll go geld guys - suprisingly he laughs raucously. (7, 6)

5: Biting piece of chocolate with dry exterior (5)

6: Half disapprove of old king (3)

7: Talks with no one amongst evergreens (7)

9: Aunt Peg really messed up the cheap seats (6,7)

12: Odds of niece being born (3)

15: At home, the rust Ive cleaned up was very invasive (9)

16: Poker-faced piper who has passed away (7)

17: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)

19: From memory, next to courage (2,5)

21: Feed all but the first stranger (5)

23: Padre's sensibly covering attire (5)

25: Cot is unmade for short month in fall (3)




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