Crossword for Tue, 12/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Refuse graduate upgraded mark (7)

4: Rascal and wuss taking week off (3)

6: Lick up pal (3)

8: Precipitate cheer for Mick Jagger (9)

10: Defame how I live in 16-across local (5)

11: Resident, alternately speaking (7)

12: One who reads each consumer (7)

14: I see marks on jumbled party favors (11)

16: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

18: Left out cheese for parasites (7)

20: Swell little town forever, maybe (7)

21: Dance starts to worry winner (5)

23: Some leading trios are essentially reenacting poems (4,5)

24: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)

25: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

26: Desires unconventional lives (7)
Down
1: Time has corroded faithlessness (7)

2: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

3: A doped-up user cans pledge (9)

4: Free sex, lips in beer; it's beyond words (13)

5: Pivotal round total ultimately in par (5)

6: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)

7: Star first overhauls top landholding, bolstered by French capital (7)

9: Designed dashing ten-ton pick-up (3-5,5)

13: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

15: Summaries of car option pamphlets (9)

16: Four qts consumed by a statue that came to life (7)

17: Cavities from wrong practices (7)

19: Dislikes laughter set-up (5)

22: A representative may be a scamp (3)




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