Crossword for Fri, 7/Oct/2022

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Across
1: Boss a German around (7)

5: State goddess gets in first (7)

9: Cook ran; ragout spilled; one might jump to conclusions here? (8,5)

10: Get with a Chicago threesome, the night before a big event (7)

11: Dispatch Socialist in contempt (5)

12: Pervert stripped in mineral water (5)

14: Knife to skin head and trim pelt (7)

18: Appears that fine car is elevated (5,2)

19: Penniless meal is fantastic (5)

20: Scheme conclusion for jet set (5)

23: Fodder derived from Swiss lake (7)

25: Taking ones cue from subsequent courtship (9,4)

26: New Testament stories about gifts (7)

27: Rushes lots of material around the rear (7)
Down
1: Explain a mackerel manoeuvre (4,5)

2: Unmatched on plainer work (9)

3: Old timers nearly grab a couple in the middle of ballyhooed broadcasts (4,5)

4: Flower power honey-bees provide (5)

5: Grows wrinkled (9)

6: Baker finds use for such money (5)

7: Singers in a special Tosca production (5)

8: A quaintly pleasing accent (5)

13: A cut back in brightly colored southern pastries (9)

15: Grasp a rag usefully wrapping vegetable (9)

16: Everlasting variety for Peter and Paul (9)

17: Tears material, tears material (9)

20: Vegetable factory? (5)

21: Very bad, but permissible, to dismiss counsel, ultimately (5)

22: Gripped by instrument, a longish claw (5)

24: Shinny up and start to cut branch (5)




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