Crossword for Tue, 5/Jan/2021

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Across
1: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

7: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)

9: Ultimately, radio operator jamming less dire (7)

10: Edible root on grapevine equals 200 milligrams (5)

11: Mild guess: I die reassembling a nasty weapon (6,7)

12: Trying restful turns around ship (9)

14: Sigh audibly about fool giving lip (5)

15: Understood I engaged in diplomacy (5)

18: Smallest-diameter bolt installed in tree house (9)

21: Chewed-up gum in tater -- how toothsome (5-8)

24: Void three stones (5)

25: Small songbirds destroyed mitt near diamond (7)

26: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

27: Playwright rethinking copyright wrangle (4,7)
Down
1: Abandons the tents? (7)

2: Strap, though short, has hanger's heart (5)

3: Fruit is found in waterfalls (7)

4: Bracing sea air! Love the place. (5)

5: Collector is slow mover garnering southern selenium (9)

6: Cuts taxes (7)

7: Stocks for bears (7)

8: Eccentric French composer (a base thief to his family) creates a cloying atmosphere (7)

13: Incredible disorder in fat cats (9)

15: Violent outburst in Arizona city street (7)

16: Its cold! Hurry up and ground it ... (5,2)

17: Revolutionary near the capital (7)

19: British actor in Rocky VII role (7)

20: Stupid alien filmed in undergrowth (7)

22: Each time, I lost message for Alice (3,2)

23: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)




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