Crossword for Wed, 26/May/2021

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Across
1: Staying awfully dark (7)

4: Strap, though short, has hanger's heart (5)

8: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

10: Stimulant produced as choir paid off (11)

11: Pattern upset clients (7)

13: Slip in terror (5)

14: Makes a comment about trendy vice (5, 2)

16: Free up fuel distribution; its appalling (7)

18: Beneficiary of ticket sales, in general (7)

19: Garments for many knights, thanks to British poets (7)

20: Threefold test (5)

21: Love Spain so terribly (7)

23: Hoarded tiny bits of dryness (11)

25: Terrier shows how to stray (3)

26: Dull nicks on a car, we hear (5)

27: Graphically describe harbour light (7)
Down
1: Sarcastic critic, alas drunk, missing bit of comedy (9)

2: Idea I'm followed for days (5)

3: Solo, the pilot rises? No way (3)

4: E.g., told story about cave-men (11)

5: Color orange upset poet something terrible (5,4)

6: Location of cheating, fiercer gender (4,9)

7: Madison's statue (5)

9: Noted Sid returning and ex leaving, put out (13)

12: Think at length about lost planet, comet (11)

15: Got used to western city after it eliminated a lot of noise (7,2)

17: The French spirits lifted by light poet (3,6)

20: Roosevelt's undergarment? (5)

22: Main nerve carries most central portion (5)

24: One politician's a brat (3)




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