Crossword for Sat, 10/Dec/2022

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Across
1: Show disapproval at disturbing rest with another needle (7)

5: Cause of weighty solemnity? (7)

8: Plastic shelf for meat (5)

9: Eat late, taking in a floozie's new business (5-2)

11: Rap wave using scab? (6-7)

13: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)

15: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

17: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

18: Draw the knot (3)

19: Drive away roofing material before farmhouse becomes a target area (8,5)

23: Determined attack on a moribund collection (4,3)

24: Brand of cat food containing bird's head and feet (5)

25: Kitchen appliance is banker's first loaner (7)

26: One who tempts peril grabbing leopard's head (7)

Down
1: Black arts and demons concerned with Homer's issue? (4,7)

2: Dodgy queen is tender (5)

3: Adjust to initially having little juice (5)

4: Boxer Max returned, holding heroin, for treatment (5)

5: Leave sorcerer to bible-basher (9)

6: Burial of radical author steeped in meaning (9)

7: Chatter about some pay-back (3)

10: Oblique demand for a new church (7)

12: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)

14: Its neat for a vessel to have this appearance (9)

15: Provisions made by the artist to get into shape for the course (7)

16: Pump witness (9)

20: Odd bits of Niacin and Sprite (5)

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

22: Arenas almost filling with the hooter (5)

23: Small piece of fish (3)





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