Crossword for Sat, 5/Dec/2020

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Across
1: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

7: I shall be sick! (3)

9: Sadly curtail urge for land cultivation (11)

10: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)

11: 'Pops' is very unhappy in retrospect (5)

12: Indian chief of devout faith (5)

14: Jewish leader in a bar tossed out pig meat (7)

17: Prattle about nothing, meaning spear (7)

18: Limit each inn's brawling (7)

19: Col in unopened 10-across tie (7)

20: Lots of westbound (southwesterly) trains (5)

22: Vegetable factory? (5)

24: Top card? Excellent! (3)

25: Stimulant produced as choir paid off (11)

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

27: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)
Down
1: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

2: Drew is ruled out (5)

3: Robin Goodfellow's ice hockey requisites (5)

4: Compile an anagram: cop in male form (9)

5: Steel is ruined, nearly destroyed (5)

6: Smokey's threat turning up deep in northern parts (5,4)

7: Old Peruvian laughs if leagued (2,7)

8: Non-clerical song (3)

13: Mend a split state (11)

15: Bruce crazy about leading medical specialist lying (9)

16: Capital investment producing hard faces (9)

17: Precipitate cheer for Mick Jagger (9)

21: Void three stones (5)

22: Glint of silica in neat crystal (5)

23: Neil Armstrong initially brought back extraterrestrial (5)

24: Toothpaste brand at Target? (3)




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