Crossword for Thu, 3/Feb/2022

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Across
2: Surprised fat southerner heading west to execute media mogul Turner (13)

9: Poodles? There's one in French city (7)

11: Time has corroded faithlessness (7)

12: Something good made by dwarf barber, perhaps! (6,7)

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

15: Extend a term of imprisonment (7)

17: Those with regrets reining in destroyers (7)

21: Splay out and make tremble (5)

23: Thinks about frolicking like she's a sitcom actress (6,7)

25: An inhabitant of Eastern Europe makes love nearer the middle (7)

26: Editor wearing trousers meets word purists (7)

27: Drive away roofing material before farmhouse becomes a target area (8,5)
Down
1: Judges playing conkers? (7)

3: Shes said to be funambulists best friend (7)

4: Rushes lots of material around the rear (7)

5: Its undergoing change regarding the performer (7)

6: Unbeliever attending robbery (7)

7: Victorious one's in last resort with Harold (9)

8: Strange red item showing black mark (7)

10: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

14: Explorer taking stuff back and beginning to observe game (5,4)

16: Adulterates by adding acid perhaps? (7)

18: Snippet from flick I esteem as more distasteful than any other (7)

19: Oriental festival on the first of November (7)

20: Fish for captain (7)

21: Knight-errant or young man in distress (7)

22: Moscow politician revolting in style (7)

24: Child, bask by the sound (3)




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