Crossword for Fri, 14/May/2021

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Across
1: Purifies

5: Insured

9: Head turner

10: Soft goatskin leather

11: SWAT team specialists

12: Deplorable

13: Measuring device that works only before noon?

14: Impresario Hurok

15: Not right

17: D'amour leader

20: Some university degs.

21: Like many stump speeches

23: Newspaper submission

24: Vivid

26: For the most part

27: Water flowers
Down
1: Kicks back

2: Lightweight material

3: Dijon disagreement

4: This yields molasses

5: Behave

6: Parts of a column

7: Bigots

8: Butlers' prompts

12: Deficiency (and an alternate title for this puzzle)

13: Alpine peril

16: Foreman's job, before grill pitchman

18: On edge

19: Felonious

20: Nut trees

22: Mexican munchies

25: Works on a wall?




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