Crossword by Boffles

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No.251

Across

1 Lower your head if you make one (4)

3 Plucky lass worth a shot (4,4)

9 Flags for bird and baby (7)

10 Bird you shoot from cover? (5)

11 Musician composed of cut grass un-English lair (5)

12 Carelessness displayed at LA airport? (6)

14 Relationship of Castor to Pollux? (2-4)

16 Headgear for polar regions? (3,3)

19 Corvid with a reputation for larceny (6)

21 Inactive and not just chemically (5)

24 Good if machinery is, not so good if you are (5)

25 Code required to decipher his art? (2,5)

26 Wise bird fond of port? (5,3)

27 Can fly or be test flown (4)

Down

1 Bird has a fishy start (8)

2 Sweet American girl (5)

4 ‘For fools rush in where ….. fear to tread’ Pope (6)

5 Louche county (5)

6 Nature of Dostoevsky hero (7)

7 ‘O the rising of the sun. And the running of the …..’ carol (4)

8 Waltz capital (6)

13 Fiery female fighter (8)

15 More than one needed for summer (7)

17 Badger hound (6)

18 Pipit’s grassy habitat (6)

20 Whale group and non-U chap somewhat fat (5)

22 Anglo-French boredom (5)

23 Bird with a reputation for zaniness (4)

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