Crossword for Fri, 4/Mar/2022

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Across
1: Flying squirrel making Prince Henry rage (9)

6: Star Trek role, beginning to end, is the pits (5)

9: Note code with sorrow (7)

10: Vet injured spine before court (7)

11: Has beach porno upset those repulsed by Web developers? (13)

14: Glint of silica in neat crystal (5)

16: Leda overtaken by frenzied satyr -- perhaps debauched? (3,6)

17: Come to terms with instant operating computers (5,2,2)

18: She literally describes high society (5)

20: Ellen, golf wife, creates a sense of joint interest (6,7)

21: Closer to morning, sound of storyteller follows organ (7)

23: French song composed by German boy in study (7)

26: Expresses dismay with the pronounced degree of corpulence (5)

27: Word of agreement disrupted trade at club a few hours ago (9)
Down
1: Norm cut vegetable (7)

2: Toothpaste brand at Target? (3)

3: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

4: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)

5: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

6: Reverend Spooner's congregants join together in fast (9)

7: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

8: Please start to sing at one San Francisco club (7)

11: Get sick chasing a grand lady's maid (7)

12: No hefty role at sea for ship-launcher (5,2,4)

13: Rub the wrong way with quietly mixed drink, leading to uncontrollable gas problems. (7)

15: As an aid to memory for broken men, first mode harmonics hold no danger. (9)

17: Reduces strain from years of tension (7)

19: A tendency to bungle and cry, 'Near upset!' (7)

22: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

23: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

24: Gorilla taking head off at it's base! (3)

25: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)




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