Crossword for Fri, 6/Oct/2023

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Across
1: Some wealthy women, I'm told, gossip about curves (9)

7: 23% of Scandinavians backing leaders (3)

9: God, transforming first day into last night, was received (3)

10: Beware of these they show the funny side of the month! (4,2,5)

11: Mug returns to 100 degrees, causing an ulcer. (7)

12: Half disapprove of old king (3)

13: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

14: Something good made by dwarf barber, perhaps! (6,7)

17: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

20: Choose to take the top off (3)

22: Sixpence for big cheese? (1.1.1.)

23: Shell compensate for loss in certain risky starts (7)

24: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

25: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

26: Root for mounting might (3)

27: Solver, tossing and turning with sick pet, didn't wake up in time (9)
Down
2: Alludes to convicts holding up Italian (9)

3: Like a big cat, snaky fish consumes Spanish toddler (7)

4: Waves like a toff (5)

5: Wanting lean candidates in favour (5,4)

6: Turn over in outskirts of Sydney 2000 is a sign (7)

7: Five Gaelic poems (5)

8: Free for all by lack of padlocked freight compartments (2,5,6)

9: I'll go geld guys - suprisingly he laughs raucously. (7, 6)

15: To peel off cover for torrid paparazzi shot (9)

16: Set out again for back stove (9)

18: Opposite qualifier, back off at single error (7)

19: Storey's fantastic seafood (7)

21: The pole will carry the principal mainsail (5)

23: I'm to get older in picture (5)




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