Crossword for Wed, 17/Jan/2024

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Across
1: State change in cross-location (7)

4: Betraying no emotion when Greek god has first expired (7)

8: God, transforming first day into last night, was received (3)

9: We hear you cannot pay, so you can't smell. (9)

10: Those who study bugs' motion got less confused (13)

13: and 2 Curses! Dons the parodists (4,3,7,2)

15: Boys terse brief for pearl producers (7)

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

18: Get used to being in Treasury Department with a secure job (7)

19: Stop fooling around with her at tea break (4,1,8)

22: Measuring unusual flowers (9)

24: Leaders of Orioles and Rangers stick in the dugout? (3)

25: Turning back, Sid went in to astonish naturalists (7)

26: I left terminus, breaking a bone (7)
Down
1: Think at length about lost planet, comet (11)

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

3: Android's gold love-apple close to Krypton (9)

4: Changes direction with care, as befits a benefactor. (4, 4, 5)

5: Singers in a special Tosca production (5)

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

7: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)

9: Pal teased about crazy snack food (6,7)

11: Downright fine (5)

12: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)

14: Understood I engaged in diplomacy (5)

16: Wrong space that's mined in an Asian land (9)

20: Relatives reject South Dakota styles (5)

21: Lady sitting atop a bird (5)

22: Trap with hands? (3)

23: Clear initial rubbish in drain (3)




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