Crossword for Wed, 17/Feb/2021

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Across
1: Bank's even keeping a bribe that's put up (7)

5: Separates 100 sheets of paper (7)

8: Exercise time inside (7)

9: Stormed loudly and held the throne (7)

11: Wild rose engulfs one willow (5)

12: Remember, mine cries in distress (9)

13: Uncouth chaps met Engel under stress. (4,9)

17: Fling an item of furniture (3,5,5)

21: Nolte, in movie 'Emergency Room,' is one eating on the grass (9)

23: A Gore follows a Ryan (5)

24: Get hold of fruit holding broken record. (7)

25: Lawman inside fires back, hits female (7)

26: Again design rose float (7)

27: University with unconventional stance about unconventional person (7)

Down
1: Conversation to completely stop about scrubs (9)

2: Norm even had a good time (7)

3: Pan given back by pastry taster (5)

4: Revolutionary near the capital (7)

5: Pack animal swallows a red candy (7)

6: Game cooked in ovens (7)

7: Rushes for middle of glossed lip (5)

10: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

14: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)

15: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)

16: Bluff included in reckless dare in ivy league college (9)

17: Place to grow fruit trees, or a leafy veggie (7)

18: Snippet from flick I esteem as more distasteful than any other (7)

19: Intrudes with a telephone faux pas? (5,2)

20: Some steamer I caught for Columbia (7)

21: Silver inside for each calling device (5)

22: One politician's a brat (3)

23: Discover treasure hiding in plain sight (5)





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