Crossword for Tue, 25/Jul/2023

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Across
1: Physician that is right is less interesting (5)

4: Animated lass in set is Snow White (9)

9: Bumped into yours truly at junction (3).

10: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

11: Fine legs confused emotions (5,8)

13: Oil depots destroyed ocean habitats (4,5)

15: Song is a gas (3)

17: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

18: Grows wrinkled (9)

20: Runner or dramatist in play (13)

23: Check strong drink of 22-acrosss bold alter ego (5,6)

25: Fiction position (3)

26: Fashionable fragrance, fundamentally (2,7)

27: Do the young work for long? (5)
Down
1: Curse the mother country? (9)

2: Frightened, missing; ID is subtly announced (9)

3: Surrounded by grass, loose and laid-back (7)

4: Rooted in regressive muddleheaded isolation (5)

5: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

6: Styli nearly unnecessary (7)

7: Pervert stripped in mineral water (5)

8: Small crewmen back rockets (5)

12: Run away with Cockney stride (5)

14: Robin Goodfellow's ice hockey requisites (5)

15: One country or another entertains Jolson (9)

16: Uncommon fly on rare plant (5,4)

18: Fires possibly singe it (7)

19: Eccentric French composer (a base thief to his family) creates a cloying atmosphere (7)

20: Chump first class, and very Italian (5)

21: Miss West soaks up ultraviolet for that striking shade of purple (5)

22: Massage central skeleton for money (5)

24: Have bananas now (3)




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