Crossword for Thu, 22/Mar/2018

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Across
1: Whip stuff with energy (5)

4: Cabal resolved hot issue of headgear (9)

7: Praises cricket ground in a speech (5)

8: In a pickle about where one should apply the acne cream (2,3,4)

11: First lost inability to drop by (7)

12: Dance to old home recording (3 4)

14: Trumpeter is a young person with a pullover (9)

15: Love affair for one like Othello, we hear (5)

16: Tony flipped over English floor covering (5)

17: Proof of intoxication (9)

19: Lighter note: tin soldier's back (7)

21: Place new requisition about the brotherhood (7)

22: Wise bird is after Sunday clothes for part of a service (5,4)

24: Fiber extracted from thistles (5)

25: Opening bet nearly winning at rummy? (9)

26: Relieves each emergency service (5)
Down
1: Illness I catch performing exercises? (13)

2: Exegesis of clue an idiot misunderstood (11)

3: Spasm set in after mothers had a little something to chew (9)

5: Allow feathers to disappoint. (3, 4)

6: Venomous enemy lurks in Caspians (3)

8: Defeated after losing leader, gets plastered (5)

9: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

10: Gradually reduce European Community requisitions for playback devices (4,9)

13: E.g., told story about cave-men (11)

15: Venus moving earth with Ipod (9)

17: Theoretically, it is one before one (1,6)

18: Song about river, ocean, and lake (5)

20: Start reducing salt? (3)

23: Feel sick from crack? (3)




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