Crossword for Sun, 3/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Wicker basket a North American Indian left (5)

3: Town's rail transport, not express? (9)

7: Evaluation pack of standard images (4,5)

9: Spanish wine from a city in Brazil getting German approval (5)

11: Two affirmations in broadcast SALT agreement? (3,3,3)

12: Before time like an aristocrat? (5)

13: The time before the first woman (3)

14: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

16: The star of 'Ellen' has at folks with substandard morals (11)

18: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

20: Content little rest for the painter (5)

22: Former husbands surrounding prettier performers (9)

24: Notes spent in Germany (5)

25: Shock with exclamations while mounting horse (9)

26: Slippery deck spots are on either side (9)

27: Ruse duck (5)
Down
1: Small bed put out by the front of every house (7)

2: Segregate horses around the object of a hunt (6,3)

3: Waves of laborers reported (5)

4: Watch Obadiah attend to customers (7)

5: 3-down said Sir, I have these! (5,4,4)

6: Love affair for one like Othello, we hear (5)

8: Grave study: code-breaking? (13)

10: Chump getting past in chasm (5)

15: Do another version of Kerouac's work (2,3,4)

16: Better armed in illusion of sleep (4)

17: Do over eco-law lacking initiative (2-5)

19: Father's wise migration (7)

21: Bit of a fight (5)

23: Almost reveal Nationals' former identity (5)




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