Crossword for Thu, 20/May/2021

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Across
1: Small hound, Prince, doesnt finish? Thats right (7)

5: Wagging tails or butts (3-4)

8: I'm great, composing music (7)

9: Control escape (3)

10: Top card? Excellent! (3)

11: Nasal quality essentially irritates Vera (5)

13: Comic's ROM crashed! Small world, isn't it? (9)

14: Chewed-up gum in tater -- how toothsome (5-8)

18: Vicious return to professional serve reveals the inequality. (13)

19: Peculiarity of family repeating letter (9)

21: Drive a head (5)

22: Number One in facetiousness (3)

23: You audibly ram partner (3)

24: Central section interrupting main tune (7)

26: Half-open tomb put in a shrouded form (7)

27: To hear's possible in this (7)

Down
1: Difficult newspaper or novel (4,5)

2: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

3: Cake decoration methods essentially deleted from ancient Chinese book (5)

4: Lodge heard discharge (5)

5: Cost very little when companion partied wildly outside (4,5)

6: Boatman from old region? (9)

7: Vapour trapped in paste amethyst (5)

10: Beside, its aligned so poorly (9)

12: In a dance, little do plenty (9)

15: Antagonistically pious about steps on fence (9)

16: Agent accepts mere garbage for contract (9)

17: Sent off info to npr.org? (9)

19: Jack's described part of a church (5)

20: Monsieur is immersed in unspecified French river (5)

21: Mystic eats piece of donut in ritual meal (5)

25: Equips for attacks (4)





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