Crossword for Thu, 31/Dec/2020

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Across
1: Material wealth (9)

5: Fastens curls (5)

8: The ultimate objective is not to achieve the goal. (2, 5, 1, 3)

9: In the beginning, the first persons found Latin confusing. (7)

11: Dilapidated sofa contained initially some hot embers: something's burnt remains. (5, 2)

12: Drunk rises, holding tubular headgear (3,4)

13: Intoxicated with dances and drinks (9)

16: Number One in facetiousness (3)

17: Leaders of Orioles and Rangers stick in the dugout? (3)

18: Raises barnyard birds (around 8) (9)

19: Language - one with a Latin derivation (7)

20: Mostly yearning for headache remedy (7)

23: This erratic 23-down twisted neck (7)

24: To leaf I turn, becoming leafy (7)

26: Noise of family gathering at the start (5)

27: Very brave, Dorothy's starting without Em perhaps? (9)
Down
1: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

2: Utter poppycock! He was a Dutch painter (5)

3: Dear benders (5)

4: We hear you require complete articles for this royal thriller. (7,6)

6: A notable Jay Leno feature, 'Sensible Dishes' (9)

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

9: Bug found in examination and in a full going-over (10,3)

10: Charge one piece of mandarin fruit (7)

11: Stimulant produced as choir paid off (11)

14: Giant fish, note, approaches Italian city (not capital) (9)

15: Water ceremony or fire in a crisis (7)

21: Scheme I enter into direct (5)

22: English novelist is in future a delight (5)

25: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)




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