Crossword for Wed, 5/May/2021

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Across
1: MS. found in hothouse (5)

4: Actress Ann admits painting one's sorrow (9)

8: March follower off with pair left behind (5)

9: Other way round!, deputy angrily avers (4,5)

11: Footwear around Canada is a disgrace (7)

13: In text of bill, I cited 'It's not legal' (7)

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

15: Examples of containers (5)

17: Without fail, pats down for hazards (5)

19: Initials of buddy in radio band (7)

21: Recluse before had a very small sum of money (7)

22: Propane explodes, theoretically (2,5)

23: Praised a general capturing returning traitors (9)

24: Tarka beheads scoundrel (5)

26: Greeting South-East Asian from Tibet? (9)

27: Hangs ten vassals at hearing (5)
Down
1: Unwilling to destroy train sets (9)

2: Leaders of Orioles and Rangers stick in the dugout? (3)

3: My gal talking to Italian at the table? (5,8)

5: Cheaper oil, gas distributed in Island chains (13)

6: Wildcats left out in capital (7)

7: Demand payment? Just so! (5)

9: A date in February: good time for a massacre? (10,3)

10: Random, visceral troop of hunters - that may open a door for you? (13)

12: Requires five kills, or a single accurate shot. (3)

16: Cover-ups of some Mexican heads reflected in more angry disorderly mobs (9)

18: I left terminus, breaking a bone (7)

20: Bite and flip over -- one way to win a wrestling match (3)

21: Ear to (almost all) the ground (5)

25: Startled, grabs sailor (3)




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