Crossword for Thu, 15/Feb/2024

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Across
1: Opening event in cruise: Iran art display (7-6)

8: Cull out from top ten (3)

9: Icon got in by mistake under an assumed name (9)

10: Funny dame getting red (5)

11: Lily Tomlin's character: teen siren runaway (9)

14: A simpleton, folksy Ugandan leader is followed by an Occupational Therapist (5)

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

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

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

21: Urgently compelled president? Sure - with democratic leader (9)

22: Believer with no head for bank job (5)

23: San Francisco athlete captures wild boar, an obvious choice (2-7)

25: Number One in facetiousness (3)

26: A cold fish embraces that woman's mortal weaknesses (8,5)

Down
1: Obscure time to start work in a happy place (5,4)

2: Conclude a recitation off-key (11)

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

4: Alien in spa written up for 'a display of greenness'? (7)

5: Larvae can appear to contain cure-all (7)

6: Bend in the middle and wind back (3)

7: Run off to marry in Tupelo, perhaps (5)

12: Tag his shirt in order to discover if he's only a little bent. (11)

13: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

16: Dont restrict as much when open-ended (9)

18: This time doctors learn about the kidneys (7)

19: Having red nose, turned back (7)

21: Terror flick about a madman's end (5)

24: Residue has scattered (3)





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