Crossword for Sun, 25/Feb/2018

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Across
1: Comes to as Ken from Perth gets in (7)

5: A n-novel cordial (7)

9: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

10: Stupidly sits in ice, snow with Packers fans? (13)

11: Ratty cavalier redressed in proper horseman's uniform. (7, 6)

13: Runner or dramatist in play (13)

16: The man with lack of skill shows cruelty (13)

20: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

21: Record unusually green ornamental centrepiece (7)

22: Dishonesty perpetrated by crooked raven in Kentucky (7)
Down
1: All for naught, perhaps; not many upset (7)

2: Shining silver base (5)

3: Almost reveal Nationals' former identity (5)

4: ESP school worried ancient dramatist (9)

5: Ace girl gets it wrong (5)

6: Sexy stockings cast hens into fit (7)

7: Wilder badger liberates (9)

8: Man sees bananas in a bunch (2,5)

11: Bell tower providing temporary accommodation by a river (9)

12: Standard cart coming back with jam (9)

13: Get with a Chicago threesome, the night before a big event (7)

14: Drink has little zip (7)

15: PIcture lines as in visions. (7)

17: Michael Caine, first outspoken host (5)

18: Girl leaving in the morning from America (5)

19: Balance a plate of fish? (5)




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