Crossword for Wed, 13/Mar/2024

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Across
1: Beware of these they show the funny side of the month! (4,2,5)

6: Throw out faulty nib (3)

8: Opera Asians (5)

9: Athletic practice for period of examination (4,5)

10: Alternative to a wig mentioned in public speaking. (7)

11: Land and take off: beginning of flight (5)

13: University boards tailless orange and light brown ape (9)

15: Origins of giddy exhuberant energy -- stunningly emptyheaded! (5)

17: Result of incident (5)

18: Oil favorite part up with small amount of Mazola (9)

19: Take off from small runway (5)

22: One wink, or forty (4-3)

23: Loud noise covers a little line by Bette Davis (4,1,4)

24: Write off aggregate (5)

25: Fool to join recital (3)

26: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)
Down
1: Intruders bury proles in pieces (11).

2: Fade over a tape, when edited (9)

3: Assault on SandL comes to nothing (9)

4: Game for drunkard (5)

5: Digs for leads in homicide of the elderly lady (5)

6: Half-resembling flashy jewellery (5)

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

9: Pair are only a short distance from the dance (3-4)

12: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

14: Mr. Upton dressed, one suit being just like any other? (2-5)

15: Stop-Go see funny type of march! (5,4)

16: Ultimately, dconstruire, to the French intellectual, is simple (9)

20: Severely criticise Astor novel (5)

21: Vegetable factory? (5)

22: Drinker taking pint from wife, perhaps (5)

23: Gained a hearing (3)




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