Crossword for Thu, 28/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Chap securing pad or new sponsor (9)

4: South of France, an African country (5)

7: Child is to depart, finally (3)

9: Black arts and demons concerned with Homer's issue? (4,7)

10: Fastener made from crumpled ripple pac (9)

11: Changes orders and loses 100 (5)

13: Returning sailors receive a penny for singular catch (5)

14: Study how to endure (2,7)

16: and 15A. Watch lead pencil spin crazily as misfortunes may occur. (9,4,6)

19: Perpendicular to 25-across? (5)

20: Short time for the Irish (5)

22: See Dennis, unfortunately, in poverty (9)

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

24: Heavy metal group X (4)

26: Scrooge in film is erratic (5)

27: Criticize changes heard in piano pieces (9)
Down
1: God, transforming first day into last night, was received (3)

2: Nut hounds famed Arizona shooter for something to deaden the noise (7)

3: Drunkard turns to observe drunkard (7)

4: Monsieur is immersed in unspecified French river (5)

5: Defusing timer incorrectly can lead to this! (13)

6: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

8: Gradually reduce European Community requisitions for playback devices (4,9)

9: Scolded, undergo assessment (7)

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

12: Plots get Cuban revolutionary leader in a terrible mess (7)

15: Concerning Eliza undergoing transformation for profit (7)

17: Something to knock down in the alley for writer at home? Back at home? (7)

18: She'll get appliance that's tan (7)

21: Gantry in Hilton Hotel, Mermaid Beach (5)

23: Thumb Drum? (3)

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




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