Crossword for Mon, 11/Dec/2023

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Across
2: About time to change instrument used to measure elevation (9)

7: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

9: I hear mantas and surface (5)

11: Don't obstruct slippery eel packer (4,5)

12: Nick shouts - and theres trouble brewing! (3,5,2,3)

14: Healers swear by the cases of the little river horse. (11)

16: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)

17: Inactive side (3)

19: Arranged date in Cairo means extermination (11)

22: Prejudice runs wild in a legal system (13)

24: Court that wrongly executed an assassin (9)

26: Goes bad and accepts never-ending abuses of the system (5)

27: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)

28: Nosy one, rear in air (9)
Down
1: Extend a term of imprisonment (7)

3: ...hence, in this place, furnishings initially included in rent (9)

4: Trespass upon a moniker exploited by commercials (4,7)

5: Draw the knot (3)

6: Go over and bring harness-racing horse back (5)

7: Odysseus' first requirement - to catch you like Polyphemus? (3-4)

8: Rub the wrong way with quietly mixed drink, leading to uncontrollable gas problems. (7)

10: Freeze one mug filled with tea, essentially (3,2)

13: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)

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

17: A legendary string player, he joins us after turning professional (7)

18: Jay and I invested in lard-like snacks (7)

20: Private dinner starts late (5)

21: 'Naked Gun' actor prepares to be dubbed in (in soundtrack) (7)

23: Boxer Max returned, holding heroin, for treatment (5)

25: Cull out from top ten (3)




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