Crossword for Wed, 12/Aug/2020

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Across
1: Restrained Republican newspaper commentary (5)

4: Multitalented near-phony described by 'vile' (9)

8: Flower - say, in Victoria's province - to raise (9)

10: The Doors have these so-called musical sessions (5).

11: Crew had dinner, we hear (5)

12: Keep an unfriendly attitude (7)

14: Call for help oddly stops (3)

15: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

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

17: Midday change (5)

19: Making out but not frosting (5)

20: Start reducing salt? (3)

21: Injured semipro with potential (7)

22: Starts to prepare every kind of European tea (5)

23: Starts to name Olivia Newton-John 'Country Entertainer' for the time being (5)

24: Liqueur prices let loose (6,3)

25: Went ahead and used the power button (7,2)

26: Nasty small places (5)
Down
1: Okay shot ripped tears in butt (6-5)

2: Drug matures thick soups (7)

3: Lived down low in damp (5)

4: National official is here, carrying identification, after challenge overwhelms local center (4-9)

5: A strike about fair regulating (9)

6: I am starting to sail in Lake Dunk (7)

7: Aliens set off (3)

9: Travel - pioneering art form (13)

13: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

15: Result of spinning Dis design (9)

18: Short measure and light weight, say (7)

20: Employs as token members (5,2)

22: Pivotal round total ultimately in par (5)

23: Tweak with wrong end of a pin (3)




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