Crossword for Sat, 12/Aug/2023

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Across
1: Frost to cover the cake (3)

3: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

8: Explosive device held by one failed candidate (7)

9: Perfect conviction ends trial (5)

10: Rise as in throw, perhaps, showing fitness to fly (13)

11: Support sign for subordinates (11)

15: Nothing we have to pay (3)

16: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

17: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

18: Tidy up and clean floor finally and decisively (4,3,3,3)

22: Relative clause ultimately adopted by the kind (5)

23: Yellow fowl (7)

25: Pick up line for first man swinging both ways? (5,2,4)

26: Short bloke discontinued hike (3)
Down
1: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

2: Gantry in Hilton Hotel, Mermaid Beach (5)

3: It causes a crash for one who owns a lot? (9)

4: Exhausted writer found in street (5)

5: De Bergerac hugged bird on return (5)

6: Select Poe novel and condense (9)

7: Support a deranged original (11)

9: First cryptic?! I nail it! (7)

10: Be prepared with amnesties for truancy (11)

12: Drew joker, adding to ace (9)

13: Make milder ground sausage (7)

14: Photoelectric cell starting to involve, with little hesitation, the receptive area of the brain (9)

19: Whip stuff with energy (5)

20: Cut up after having gambled, with death perhaps? (5)

21: Out of line like London gardens (5)

24: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)




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