Crossword for Fri, 31/May/2024

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Across
1: Irresponsible friends show up merry (9)

4: Coal remaining at the end of a month (5)

7: Scrooge in film is erratic (5)

9: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)

11: Radio hosts drink little (5)

12: Seek trail (2,5)

13: Record unusually green ornamental centrepiece (7)

14: Android's gold love-apple close to Krypton (9)

15: Articles in 'Divers Times' (5)

16: Dispatches last bits following Saturday (5)

17: Play with exaggerated emotions made moral play (9)

19: Gold tooth, perhaps, in satellite? (7)

21: Draw one above Indian hut (7)

22: Sneak around front end of stairwell (5)

23: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

24: I turn, lost, in Italian city (5)

26: Disreputable chaps killed fowl. (5)

27: Prepared nuts before break of day (4,5)
Down
1: In all, just a little peak. (3)

2: Difficult newspaper or novel (4,5)

3: Would an Englishman worry about fish? (7)

4: Host seems clever, off and on (5)

5: Rocks lure a breeding fish (4,9)

6: Okay shot ripped tears in butt (6-5)

8: Tint bark clogs to provide foot support (8,5)

10: Firm rear end (5)

12: Hang back, keeping right next to person buying a jumper (11)

15: Limits of Indonesian dictator lacking true measure of economy (9)

17: Notes spent in Germany (5)

18: It's not the editor in chief that looked threatening (7)

20: Stories least translated (5)

25: Anyway - no! (3)




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