Crossword for Thu, 6/Jan/2022

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Across
1: Grant loud colour (3)

3: Stimulant produced as choir paid off (11)

9: Complain about the horse (3)

10: Mischievously cheat on board for packets (7)

11: Pay in gym before deli spread (5)

12: Fade over a tape, when edited (9)

13: Native American involved in drug problem exposed (5)

16: Tongue-in-cheek advice to enter cast (5,1,3)

18: Bill accepts new slant in Jack's Magic Ladder? (9)

19: Sing gist of laudatory ode loudly (5)

20: Figures wrong girl is hugging nobleman (9)

22: Loathing for leader leaving platform (5)

24: Come up for air with expert under ocean waves (7)

25: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

26: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

27: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)
Down
1: Sharpen search, including gym and cubbyholes (9)

2: Raptor is well under par (5)

3: Biting piece of chocolate with dry exterior (5)

4: Dispatch Socialist in contempt (5)

5: CEO Kane we agitated every Friday, as one example (4,1,4)

6: Making key choice in sport (3,6)

7: Lined salt shaker made ready for use (9)

8: Selected last of acrylic socks (5)

14: Unwilling to destroy train sets (9)

15: Do cruises free verbal expression? (9)

16: Indoctrinate genius to bathe (9)

17: Victor receives this prize literally or decoration (4,5)

20: Satanic personification in 'Anthem A-Gogo' (5)

21: Casts off shacks (5)

22: Oak's first seen on the first of May with its leaves out (5)

23: Irish terrorists meet queen - one from Baghdad, perhaps (5)




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