Crossword for Thu, 14/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Youre filming some Return of the Long Term Prisoner (5)

4: I clear imp in ruckus based on evidence (9)

7: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)

8: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)

11: Indolence evident in Rowes Lothario (5)

12: Woman losing head after another fall (9)

13: Reportedly pull down more money at work (5)

14: Something lacking in brief season (9)

16: Beauty held a label up as being the merest trifle (9)

18: Leaders in public office boosted charity foundations (5)

19: Bravery drops a non-drinker easy start for marrow! (8)

20: Legend that things are underway. (5)

21: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

23: Got it, with a laugh (3)

25: Caught up in son's greed unfortunately (9)

26: Flower shop nosh about $41 (5)
Down
1: Telekinesis pinches Albanian coin (3)

2: Taking ones cue from subsequent courtship (9,4)

3: Lionel train originally given to Ron Howard on 'Happy Days' (7)

4: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

5: Sent one page rewritten in military lingo (11)

6: Flower inducing forgetfulness in vaudeville theater (5)

9: Jump Begin (5)

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

11: Fancy brush? (5)

12: Clearances for the first couple of characters to find answers. (11)

15: Slightest tales are twisted (5)

17: Going back in where GI trapped predator (5)

18: Recognise terrible smell in Vespers for the Dead? (7)

19: Worry about Democrat's chief staff group (5)

22: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

24: Venomous enemy lurks in Caspians (3)




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