Crossword for Fri, 16/Apr/2021

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Across
1: Smash top off strange fruit with speed (7)

3: Ancient historian understood America (7)

7: A superior helper (7)

10: Electronic man swallowed spring (7)

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

12: Pub undoes gross implications (9)

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

17: Song is a gas (3)

18: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

19: Privy to accessibility (11)

20: Come through, for the most part; at end of course, make a series of holes (9)

22: Vet theatre opening 8-down (3)

23: Kitchen appliance is banker's first loaner (7)

24: A monster making some angry phone-calls (7)

25: Believes in harnessing hydrogen for sources of propulsion (7)

26: Old French act involving British eccentric (7)
Down
1: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

2: Lady sitting atop a bird (5)

3: ...hence, in this place, furnishings initially included in rent (9)

4: Secretly include railroad in family future (13)

5: Scratches container with a Mark of Sorrow? (9)

6: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

8: Encourage horse led with direction. (3)

9: Diet, sir! Clergy upset with fat constituents (13)

13: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)

15: Breaking promise, strip back nightie (9)

16: It's an odor billowing from Indian dishes (9)

21: English features of Italian glories (5)

22: Solo, the pilot rises? No way (3)

23: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)




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