Crossword for Thu, 12/Oct/2023

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Across
1: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)

6: In all, just a little peak. (3)

8: Delay yield (5)

10: Cleaning off a lion bust (9)

11: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

12: Tender command (3)

13: Warned of related crackpot (7)

15: ...in Dan's nor Kelly's breathing tube (7)

16: I left terminus, breaking a bone (7)

17: Compel compliance with printers measure for cable ends (7)

19: Hospital doctors bury bridge partners (7)

20: Play faster in last 3/4 of piece with bass held backward (5,2)

21: Standard style of music rejected (3)

22: Odds of niece being born (3)

23: Suddenly lots and lots of black reptiles devouring zebra's head (9)

24: Heretic repented, holding tissue (5)

25: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

26: Playwright rethinking copyright wrangle (4,7)

Down
2: Neither partner finds way out of country (3)

3: Dirt caught in footwear (7)

4: On the other hand, spare second French town (7)

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

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

7: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)

8: Race cars Dr. Silver steers without trace of effort (9)

9: Ellen, golf wife, creates a sense of joint interest (6,7)

12: Thirteen broken adzes repaired (6,5)

14: Syrian mother with a part in a play (9)

18: Clapton hugs member of Parliament and me, a quack (7)

19: I'm getting old and you can't get over it (7)

23: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

24: See, you are a cad. (3)





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