Crossword for Mon, 1/Apr/2024

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Across
1: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

3: Weapons in a womans speech (11)

8: This'll sound like a Scottish emblem (7)

9: Loud lot ran out at the head (7)

10: Peace is confirmed with start of ceremony (5)

11: In love with copper? Gone to give a needle? (9)

12: Ask for bit of bread with melted cheese (7)

14: Level called for salary increase (5)

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

17: Edit verbose note (7)

20: Survey mutants with missing shells for a possible cause of damage (9)

21: Oddly corny spot in tomb (5)

22: Snubbed a vacant journalist (7)

23: A reported cause of shipwrecks in a body of traditions the French one (7)

25: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

26: However, you expect trouble at first (3)
Down
1: Place to clean up bit of trash in club meeting area (7)

2: Schoolchildren made to come back on Saturday make mistakes (4-3)

3: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)

4: Designed dashing ten-ton pick-up (3-5,5)

5: Two hindus translated mystery stories (9)

6: Drag inside remains of the struggle for survival (3,4)

7: Dispatched boxing champ--outstanding (7)

9: Holder of strange ritual of troll (5,8)

13: Show sedated one giving details (9)

15: A couple of pints back up two-part cheer (7)

16: What one does with barrels can lead to a problem in the toilet. (4, 3)

18: Novel payment dominating class (7)

19: Enjoy a mud pie and trade it freely (3,4)

24: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)




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