Crossword for Sun, 25/Jul/2021

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Across
1: An idiot goes back into a pub serving small potatoes (7)

5: Young hawks viciously eat legs (7)

9: Questionable realtor robs preacher (4,7)

11: Fiction position (3)

12: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

14: Take Chair in university (3)

15: Working up here? Not in the next episode (9)

16: Fur seal frolicking around entrance to bay (5)

18: Inspect gold dust without refining initially (5)

19: Whip up last cocktail slings! (9)

20: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)

22: Intruders bury proles in pieces (11).

24: Pass mould (3)

25: Stimulant produced as choir paid off (11)

27: Frank turned brown sitting on mountains (7)

28: Makes poor reproductive material in watering holes (7)

Down
1: Tine expert no good (5)

2: Top-flight hairstyle instead (9)

3: Spy pinched mere fragments of treaty (9)

4: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

6: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)

7: New York island is hellish without boundaries (5)

8: We hear you cannot pay, so you can't smell. (9)

10: Oscillating crystal perhaps not so rare (9)

13: Taste of beer and liquor with game (3-6)

15: Great Dane running about outside caf (3-6)

16: Dining on donuts, for the sake of argument? (9)

17: Degree consumes all-Ireland dancing girl (9)

21: Fold suit and undershirt (5)

23: Fires partner in investment firm, we hear (5)

25: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

26: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)





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