Crossword for Sun, 7/Nov/2021

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Across
1: Strut about Lands End with a dogs tail? (7)

5: Hit essayist with flower (7)

7: Warning! The French return to take up weapons.(5)

8: Trying restful turns around ship (9)

11: One may be a very long time (3)

12: Upset top duo; I went and confessed (5,2,2,2)

13: Test fabrics in nightgowns and ladies' tops (5)

14: Moderately amphibian, for example, by the middle of the creek (2,1,6)

17: Sad, sad strands of Gershwin tunes, for instance (9)

18: Gallows gear so one swings (5)

20: Questionable realtor robs preacher (4,7)

22: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

23: Unmatched on plainer work (9)

25: Runs in place without a top--without a top OR bottom (5)

26: Actors were first to have moved on board (7)

27: Tasman has a way for French theologian, Peter (7)
Down
1: 30-across Locality of drama and current progress (5,2,4)

2: Double profit repeatedly (5,3,5)

3: Had fun and took a risk in audition (9)

4: Oscillating crystal perhaps not so rare (9)

5: Drew is ruled out (5)

6: One may be transported by this kiss, it's said (3)

9: Holder of strange ritual of troll (5,8)

10: Initially, too hewed in misrepresentation to be supple (5)

15: One country or another entertains Jolson (9)

16: Lily Tomlin character inside her nest in Ecuador (9)

17: Made clear how in directions (5)

19: What models do when embraced by former Democrat leader - all is revealed (7)

21: Born and raised, it is whispered, to make money (5)

24: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)




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