Crossword for Sat, 19/Oct/2019

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Across
1: How to secure man-haters at last (5)

4: Shock with exclamations while mounting horse (9)

7: Design for absurd flotation device (9)

9: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

11: Dee Star danced in two clubs recently (9)

12: Inert form of saltpeter (5)

13: Stormed loudly and held the throne (7)

15: Uncovered selection is of considerable size (5)

16: Homer's travail: 'I don't finish daily retreat.' (5)

18: Ms. Turner returned to Club Street shrink (7)

21: In Germany, the monster returned from the east. (5)

22: Later on, does dance with a lay-person? (9)

24: Removes from office and bags (5)

25: Control staff work collectively (9)

26: Team's outstanding player goes onto Disabled List. It's all in a day, but really low (9)

27: Gloomy semi-dull firmament (5)

Down
1: Dangerous undertaking skiers in busy S bend (5,8)

2: Examiner for each drug addict (7)

3: Reliable, timeless jet (5)

4: Leave a ring on (7)

5: The foreign policeman dropped me before the end of 'Absolutely Fabulous' (9)

6: Dance to old home recording (3 4)

8: Hardly a booze commercial nymph (5)

10: Dry vegetarian, about to like this puzzle, perhaps? (6, 7)

14: A country, one said, in trouble (9)

17: Beetles, for example, being produced by modern factions (7)

18: Pathological bumbler holds a record (5)

19: Fixed penalty for 9 (7)

20: Dozens of sprites seen on Tuesday and Wednesday initially (7)

23: Change at noon (5)





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