Crossword for Sat, 3/Jun/2017

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Across
1: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)

3: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

5: Garments for many knights, thanks to British poets (7)

9: Conspired to be captivated. (9)

11: ...or stuffed with the alternative (5)

12: Trade stolen items to guard (5)

13: Ambush late-rising with auditors load (3,2,4)

14: Backblock not all there (3)

16: Not clear but large; you ring us after the morning (9)

17: Just desserts for Alpine tumble? (9)

18: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

19: Believer taking blame for counselor (9)

20: Spices clubs (5)

23: Come to Korea - Chinese part (5)

24: Peak test of humanity is very painful. (9)

25: Talked about an urban area in the NW (7)

26: Take Chair in university (3)

27: About....about right? Wrong! (3)
Down
1: Lawyer keeps it short (5)

2: Bird gets an eminent man (5)

3: The sound of a piano is excruciating (5)

4: Repeated note to help player? (6-7)

6: Lignite with low carbon content (5,4)

7: Broadcast share in genuine show trial (9)

8: Supporting truth nearly buried in con game (9)

10: Changes direction with care, as befits a benefactor. (4, 4, 5)

14: Awfully smart name for soldiers (3-2-4)

15: Cutthroat congressman's back in lifeless Ohio primary (9)

16: Mata Hari flitting around eastern part of old Palestine (9)

20: Climp up on horse on high ground (5)

21: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)

22: A rugs fashionable and rather sweet (5)




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