Crossword for Wed, 2/Dec/2020

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Across
1: Reject the upset outcast (5)

5: Blame cast about nine adept at blending in (7)

8: It causes a crash for one who owns a lot? (9)

9: Examples of containers (5)

10: Calls for lemon and mustard, losing zero weight (5)

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

12: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

13: Enticements disrupt mental rules (11)

16: Actress Tori, lacking direction, is getting the characters out of order(11)

20: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

21: Everlasting variety for Peter and Paul (9)

23: Refuse to obey a French hooligan (5)

24: Publicity about one expectant father, perhaps (5)

25: Craft technique for remodeling aged coupe (9)

26: In favour of court or university official (7)

27: One young lady who is out of order (5)
Down
1: Four runners usually talk about YMCA in the morning (5,4)

2: Wooden seemed ordinary around Nebraska (7)

3: Be quick to make appearance with instrument (4,5)

4: Polite fellow, but a slippery character (7)

5: Digger protects a Royal worth his salt (7)

6: Unbelievable boast in part of the castle (7)

7: Expel National Service Union leaders and heartbreak will follow (5)

9: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

14: Wildly game sycophant heard 16-downs successors (9)

15: Stuff used to make soup with apples - it's boiled (5-4)

17: Hot, current--'Gent' by Coco? Refreshing! (7)

18: Hollywood location less than clean (7)

19: 49 + 51: 101? To start with, that's wrong (7)

20: Kind of sign alphabet linked Italian leader with Fascist (3-4)

21: Annoying ad for toaster design? (3-2)

22: Emergency room stocks one sensitive organ (3)




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