Crossword for Wed, 10/Jan/2024

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Across
1: Question prisoner and German spirit (9)

5: Does loose change forfeit worn tail for false head? (5)

8: Away sick and lifeless (5)

9: Settle standard kilometer (4)

11: Clearly notes Earths at a particular compass point (4-5-4)

13: Calculated average time (5)

16: Little singer returned, following band to total a hairy little mother with seating for one. (7)

17: Wild geese, disoriented without leaders, find shelter (3,4)

18: Part of brutal one's claw (5)

19: Defusing timer incorrectly can lead to this! (13)

22: Get bunger out for renowned German printer (9)

24: Anchors in peat bogs (5)

25: Sense of location, we hear (5)

26: Supposed hot desire gnawed (9)
Down
2: I see marks on jumbled party favors (11)

3: No French islands for the other Dr. Crane (5)

4: Stomach-wobbling menu to follow recipe (5)

5: Court that wrongly executed an assassin (9)

6: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

7: Changed musician not so offensively pious (13)

8: Beat it and ran, for example, with Girl Scout ingredients (9,4)

10: Nobleman, with honour from the Queen, in stud hangout? (7)

12: Clearances for the first couple of characters to find answers. (11)

14: That may be reversed, but his son sits around pointlessly. (4,2,3)

15: Introduction to knitted/purled English (7)

20: Raptor is well under par (5)

21: Gantry in Hilton Hotel, Mermaid Beach (5)

23: Draw a stomach uprising (3)




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