Crossword for Sat, 5/Mar/2022

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Across
2: Call girl sting nabs head of Moral Majority (5)

5: Beetles, for example, being produced by modern factions (7)

9: Bug found in examination and in a full going-over (10,3)

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

12: I am reported to leer (3)

13: Ejection of Jack from medieval competition (7)

15: A month's work for a denizen of the deep (7)

18: Boss a German around (7)

19: He acted badly and broke the rules (7)

20: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

21: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)

24: Menzies-Carr alliance keeps eye on silly timers (3-3,7)

26: Wild sire ran from Nevada mountain range (7)

27: Black-out unhinged LuAnn (5)

Down
1: Tour with crazy Mrs. Barton (9)

2: Bond leads in The World Is Not Enough (5)

3: Drawing, for example, a bit of a cartoon (3)

4: A driven person, Ness left wearing a beeper (9)

5: I competed with climbers on the walls? (5)

6: Model spoken about is reserved (5)

7: Often copper brews up two common drugs. (6,3)

8: Drinker taking pint from wife, perhaps (5)

11: Airborne without a trace of fear, reclining in plane (5)

14: Perhaps the sound of the beach is really rock? (9)

15: Horse cart relocates minstrel troupe (9)

16: Measure of heat in the empty room (5)

17: Disorder outside is undermining the state (9)

20: Steno erratically scribbles (5)

21: White or brown powder sounds like pink (5)

22: Horse eating western mountain ash (5)

23: Arenas almost filling with the hooter (5)

25: Polygraph unexpectedly traps vandal (3)





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