Crossword for Tue, 11/Jul/2023

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Across
1: Sound frequently killed (5)

3: Certain flyer's canteen empty, per Reverend Spooner (9)

8: Quiet floor decoration is a sign of indifference (5)

10: Where one may play an instrument as a novice (9)

11: Ministers ordain art evil? I doctor a reversal (13)

13: Excitedly married beau (7)

14: Notable piece of animation by English bishop (5)

16: Flower, large one, set up outside (5)

18: We hear you will record part of a Christmas celebration (4,3)

20: Does not see the advertisement because it is in the wrong section. (13)

22: Defender is the one admitting to moving goalpost (9)

24: Taste test (5)

25: Working up here? Not in the next episode (9)

26: Refuse to listen to the middle (5)
Down
1: Attentive old bachelor, one who waits on others (9)

2: Weapon company accommodating listener (7)

3: The star of 'Ellen' has at folks with substandard morals (11)

4: Gorilla taking head off at it's base! (3)

5: How Nero holds one in control (5)

6: Loud lot ran out at the head (7)

7: Pulls Americans (5)

9: Candy, Rod, Gump all confused (7)

12: Bright-sounding agenda touches on heavyweight legend (5,6)

14: She plays in a small enclosure on one street (7)

15: Beauty held a label up as being the merest trifle (9)

17: Easily bent out of shape? So smile, silly (7)

19: Refined women suppressing desires, principally for boys (7)

20: Calculated average time (5)

21: Free trade: highest bird for lowest bill(5)

23: One politician's a brat (3)




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