Crossword for Sun, 7/Feb/2021

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Across
2: Vicious return to professional serve reveals the inequality. (13)

8: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

9: Dieter's first hint: hurl mostly for reducing (9)

11: Grant loud colour (3)

12: 28 Invitation for man to get a cent on November 5? (5,3,3,3)

13: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)

14: Stone or card (7)

16: Cull out from top ten (3)

17: Pate topping primarily honey and tamari? (3)

18: Extreme aims voiced (7)

20: You audibly ram partner (3)

21: Weapons in a womans speech (11)

24: Neither's partner participated in an orchestra (3)

25: Busier man accidentally sinking ship (9)

26: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)

27: Irregular bouts of activity suit beach scrubbers (4,3,6)

Down
1: Has beach porno upset those repulsed by Web developers? (13)

2: Drop in rent keeping me housed after last month (9)

3: Deepest swimming is totally immersed (7)

4: Superfluous request for payment received by Communist soldier (9)

5: 'Drip' splits prize with British Council (5)

6: Movie star kind of hot for date (7)

7: A period set around one Dostoyevsky character (5)

10: Canadian water ordered for regal tea-break (5,4,4)

15: Corner I established confines the most unruly (9)

16: Shrubs dot the French mountain range, providing a tinge of russet (9)

18: State goddess gets in first (7)

19: Aliens work infrared thrust (7)

22: Path of planet - or particle (5)

23: Odd one enters, lured back (5)





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