Crossword for Sat, 1/Jul/2023

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Across
1: Supposed hot desire gnawed (9)

6: Witticism provided theme (5)

9: On your feet! (8,5)

10: Poplar is like a writer (5)

11: Essentially presents allegory conducive to isolation (9)

13: Continuously flows from the right to enter a competitive group on board (7)

14: Maverick starting to buck in wind (5)

17: Old Mongoloid to farewell religious leader (5)

19: Talk about food for the birds (7)

21: Dreadful bender did result in being laid up. (9)

22: Measure of heat in the empty room (5)

23: Aunt Peg really messed up the cheap seats (6,7)

25: Headless rodent left by bird (5)

26: Crooner Mel: famous, loveless, suffering (9)
Down
1: Tutus can serve to conceal Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, say (7)

2: Quite put out, doctor axes red tape (11)

3: Superfluous request for payment received by Communist soldier (9)

4: Cavities from wrong practices (7)

5: It administers medicine to a clumsy one (7)

6: Backblock not all there (3)

7: Start reducing salt? (3)

8: Most attractive are quick to adopt rage (7)

12: Hostile warning: one man has captured the queen (11)

15: Ms Starr has a gun, a mere toy (9)

16: Leaves mid-October accounts depleted by 50 per cent (7)

18: Fastness concerning concern. (7)

19: Boss a German around (7)

20: Mad? O, yes! Mad dog! (7)

23: Nightwear and jersey top added in afterthought (3)

24: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)




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