Crossword for Sat, 11/Mar/2023

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Across
1: Shower time, Bonzo? Spring, I hear (5)

4: Working leader sobs bitterly after blemishes returned (5,4)

7: Reformed drinker helps a water distributor (9,4)

10: Form of address valued for the auditor taken unawares (9)

12: Pivotal round total ultimately in par (5)

13: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)

14: Strangely enough, cat's lease keeps getting bigger (9)

16: Recipient of drink describing gown with energy (9)

18: Woodland deity posed six months (5)

19: Provoke popular scoundrel. (5)

21: He is round (grossly fed) (9)

23: He explored star (7,6)

25: Exercise is right for a one-time actor (9)

26: Discounting all odds, teen assured to succeed (5)
Down
1: Liquidation of one country led by pair of fools (13)

2: Pinker and harder to find (5)

3: Taking the future into consideration, Chaney acquires farmstead (4-5)

4: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

5: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)

6: Youngster giving wounded first aid (5)

8: Bolted up tiptop earthenware (5)

9: Prejudice runs wild in a legal system (13)

11: Bobbed beneath in playful attempt to drown journalist. (6, 5)

15: Total lack of enthusiasm for girlishness in Scotland? (9)

17: Ornamentation used in the a la mode coronet (5)

20: One side of the page a clergyman does not finish (5)

22: Dislikes laughter set-up (5)

24: Direct object (3)




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