Crossword for Wed, 8/Jun/2022

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Across
1: Melodic rearrangement of asymmetrically split second part (7)

5: A weak line of defense from wise men? Not! (7)

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

10: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

12: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)

13: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

14: Drunkard turns up near beach, reversing new habit, to sleep fitfully (4,3,4)

16: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

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

20: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)

21: Difficult book about Baltic currency (11)

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

26: A child toils to produce poems (7)

27: Carry on after New York's flipped into unconsciousness (7)
Down
1: Many sound prospects for prospectors (5)

2: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

3: See, you are a cad. (3)

4: Courses finish with Decline and Fall (5)

5: Aquatic plant providing a variety of materials (5,4)

6: Smiled with greed, almost, about the hotel (7)

7: No one told sister (3)

9: Bomb compartment - note damaged weapon (7)

11: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

12: Put hot cocoa out for someone glued to the TV (5,6)

13: Famous for being incompetent? (7)

15: ESP school worried ancient dramatist (9)

17: Men hate diffused gas (7)

18: I am reported to leer (3)

22: Bit lots by half of tsetse flies (5)

23: Belated top-and-tailing to gladden one's heart (5)

24: Sounds like a bright child (3).

25: Have bananas now (3)




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