Crossword for Thu, 13/Aug/2020

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Across
1: One young lady who is out of order (5)

4: Director Michael Festers goes back in closet (9)

9: Guess what the benighted marksman did? (4,2,3,4)

10: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

11: To accept covert mission, in brief, is an opening for chaos (7)

13: Di returned to me in France: back for the turn of phrase. (5)

14: Lily Tomlin character inside her nest in Ecuador (9)

17: Unfallen in gradual encirclement of city! (9)

18: Subsequently change, when Al turns around? (5)

20: Deepest swimming is totally immersed (7)

21: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)

23: Modernise rear, in the opinion of escort (5,2,2,4)

25: Tide, for example, has to stop fellow (9)

26: Woodland deity posed six months (5)
Down
1: Acid destroyed brace (5)

2: Introduction of inert ions with mercurial elements (9)

3: Guy tails Rod's agent (9)

4: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

5: Cull out from top ten (3)

6: Genteel Egyptian penning mournful poem (5)

7: Old role for paintings that trick the eye (2,3)

8: Explain a mackerel manoeuvre (4,5)

12: Upset top duo; I went and confessed (5,2,2,2)

13: Is Asian holy man sinning in Asian capital? (9)

15: Speaks about actor Alan, a youth (5,4)

16: Burial of radical author steeped in meaning (9)

19: To live with a former partner is the final result (5)

20: A rugs fashionable and rather sweet (5)

22: Run over Martian explorer (5)

24: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)




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