Crossword for Thu, 10/May/2018

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Across
1: On second thoughts, rising fish glitter (7)

5: Mixed race had become a farce (7)

9: Sadly curtail urge for land cultivation (11)

10: Wants - in fact, just has to have (5)

11: Most cool first date out (9)

14: Distended, having bolted a stew (7)

15: Scrabble piece having D and a diacritical mark (5)

17: Freeze one mug filled with tea, essentially (3,2)

18: Clobbering out in boxing venue (7)

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

21: Bring Father back to hang buckets on maples again (5)

22: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

25: Hold torn veil held by busy worker (7)

26: 'Doctor, I hear bees,' the French drool (7)

Down
1: Support sign for subordinates (11)

2: Friendly over age of consent? (9)

3: Hang back, keeping right next to person buying a jumper (11)

4: In fear of wheat head (3)

5: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

6: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

7: Entertain one of nine daughters of Mnemosyne (5)

8: The time before the first woman (3)

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

12: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)

13: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

16: Delicate stem is enlightening (5,4)

20: A girl in distress, sought by knights (5)

22: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

23: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

24: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)





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