Crossword for Tue, 5/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Guided into the West (2,3)

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

8: Radicchio tastes good in little bits. (5)

9: By no means the cleverest, anyway (9)

11: Rise as in throw, perhaps, showing fitness to fly (13)

12: Encourage horse led with direction. (3)

14: Rambling tales are out of date (5)

16: Reportedly cruises the internet for laborers (5)

17: Gore locked in little boy's room (5)

18: Teaching assistants run into hospital facility for shocker (5)

19: Chatter about some pay-back (3)

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

24: Lily Tomlin character inside her nest in Ecuador (9)

25: Clean air makes Australia singular (5)

26: Upright drunk's interjection interrupts the others briefly (7)

27: Maxes out tests (5)

Down
1: Tim ate one unsavory ape (7)

2: Old Mongoloid to farewell religious leader (5)

3: Stupidly sits in ice, snow with Packers fans? (13)

4: Gulf expressed in certain letters (5)

5: Plastic canister filled with fifty licorice sticks (9)

6: It's designed to hold hot air, say, surrounding edges of propeller (4,5)

7: Noble lady even spies earl, eh, sis? (7)

10: Valuable discovery certain in luxury travel (8,5)

13: Note old fashioned opening with 2.54 cm bird (9)

15: Actual air of confusion calculating insurance premiums (9)

17: An inhabitant of Eastern Europe makes love nearer the middle (7)

20: Have sheriff's helpers joined Nazi police (7)

22: Go-go artist Rivera (5)

23: German approval given to port wine from Spain (5)





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