Crossword for Thu, 4/Apr/2024

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Across
1: Crank teases the art lovers (9)

6: Identifies men as displaced - best not to be one at 34's (5)

9: Fine legs confused emotions (5,8)

10: Modernise rear, in the opinion of escort (5,2,2,4)

13: Rinse out pine compound (5)

14: Recreating the past, USS Enterprise finally turned up (9)

15: Bone-picker starts scouring chronicles for one bent on retribution (9)

18: Excessively sentimental dunderhead in the river (5)

20: Furious persons cry for the lure of the wilderness (4,2,3,4)

22: Devil and saint share presentation (13)

26: He's not joking, it's completely lawless. (2, 3)

27: Dolly bird in temple (9)
Down
1: Direct object (3)

2: Island captured by lunatic exists for one turbulent decade (7)

3: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)

4: Belgian port getting rid of an idiot (5)

5: 'Betrayal' is a theatrical success (7)

6: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

7: Bivalves? I thought you said biceps (7)

8: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

10: Black arts and demons concerned with Homer's issue? (4,7)

11: Polite fellow, but a slippery character (7)

12: Send in the beer, Saint Peter (7)

16: Song describing rat in a place of calm and beauty (7)

17: Adult party to entertain disheartened women (5-2)

19: Tide recedes in love, in this version. (7)

21: Old Mongoloid to farewell religious leader (5)

23: Bumped into yours truly at junction (3).

24: Residue has scattered (3)

25: Sister gets nothing, we hear (3)




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