Crossword for Thu, 3/Mar/2022

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Across
1: Unprepared, a little gerbil darted the wrong way (2-3)

4: Helps jazz musicians after the first (7)

9: Direct object (3)

10: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

11: The man with lack of skill shows cruelty (13)

13: Saw palm down (5)

14: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)

15: There was little space in the satanic heresy. (5)

17: Redesigned color name tag (5)

19: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

20: Some jelly-like pop top? I see (5)

22: Opening event in cruise: Iran art display (7-6)

23: Just grazed the pasty? (4-7)

25: Half disapprove of old king (3)

26: Bomb compartment - note damaged weapon (7)

27: Suitable position to occupy in back with revolutionary (5)
Down
1: Group of lawyers, cast aside and embarrassed (7)

2: Censured someone who's gentle as a Kennedy (9)

3: Dead in place of rest, but not soon enough. (7)

4: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

5: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

6: Live within the lustre of a spirited place (7)

7: Leaders of South Korea in disgrace suffer slippages (5)

8: Surprisingly tautest act (7)

12: Arranged date in Cairo means extermination (11)

16: No problem to deal with puritan on the radio (9)

17: Rejections concern enthusiasts (7)

18: Venture to comment, 'War God stands in light' (7)

20: Freedom of action in desert (7)

21: Surgical tool gutting curvy coquette (7)

22: Go up cedar's first branch (5)

24: Scale Ten after taxes (3)




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