Crossword for Fri, 4/Nov/2022

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Across
1: Mean a favourite defensive work (7)

4: Rejections concern enthusiasts (7)

8: A murder suspect, one hears? (7)

10: Feel sick from crack? (3)

11: Draw the knot (3)

12: Challenge the bench in retaliation. (13)

13: It's exciting, for example, holding a tongue (7)

15: Drive an unusual visitor (7)

17: Name successor in speech? (7)

18: Twisted, heartless guy scored (7)

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

23: Fool to join recital (3)

24: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

25: Outfit wins Tet Offensive (7)

26: A legislator spilling no tears (7)

27: Exotic cider as cocktail (7)
Down
1: Introduction to knitted/purled English (7)

2: Animal or container in tree (9)

3: Attract fill-in worker by end of August (5)

4: Looking about (9)

5: One intolerant of extensive overtime (5)

6: Irregular bouts of activity suit beach scrubbers (4,3,6)

7: Shiny flat-bottomed boats heading north (5)

9: He explored star (7,6)

14: Leave sorcerer to bible-basher (9)

16: Wrote a poem for Rev. Spooner's foxes and minks I've ogled (9)

19: Lassie from Sirius? (3,4)

20: Rings for the groups (5)

21: and 15 Novel alternative excised from huge spits (5,12)

22: Singers in a special Tosca production (5)




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