Crossword for Thu, 3/Oct/2019

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Across
1: Crushed bones, say, as source of sauce (4,5)

5: Pygmy antelope or Nile wader without a tail (5)

8: Lily Tomlin's character: teen siren runaway (9)

10: Pour dripping over tack (5)

11: Devil and saint share presentation (13)

12: Hostile warning: one man has captured the queen (11)

15: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

17: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

18: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

20: Holder of strange ritual of troll (5,8)

23: Bishop has support from this criminal (5)

25: There aren't any comebacks after such a poor performance. (2, 7)

26: Game for drunkard (5)

27: Open singles with additional meaning (9)

Down
1: Write down 'In mink, not frozen'? (9)

2: Twice French mounted plain bovines (5)

3: Muhammad's first of the desirable ones (1-4)

4: Show sadness when fruit gets cut out (4,1,4)

5: Upset bee lit out from underground imprisonment (9)

6: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

7: Freeze one mug filled with tea, essentially (3,2)

9: Quicker in rising, doctor left Veterans Centre (7)

13: Making key choice in sport (3,6)

14: Deranged person ate tongue (9)

15: Layperson to straighten us clear (7)

16: Do springs help American author? (3,6)

19: Come round again about dog (5)

21: Robe's eyelet exposes more than fat (5)

22: Silent, cat backs away from it (5)

24: Rohmer hiding unit of Resistance (3)





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