Crossword for Fri, 17/Dec/2021

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Across
1: Felt strangely about unfinished age-old recorder (9)

5: Romero races around (5)

8: From memory, next to courage (2,5)

9: Best work it out with mother (7)

10: American boxer entering kind of club in Middle East region (7)

11: Leaders actually dont expect people to be skillful (5)

12: State charted illegal payments (5)

14: Liqueur prices let loose (6,3)

16: Institute has his stable converted (9)

17: Tied down holding back fighting (5)

18: March follower off with pair left behind (5)

20: Sea creatures with vocal powers (7)

22: Lighter note: tin soldier's back (7)

23: Elsa ran frantically for store (7)

25: Idler, upset, stirred (5)

26: A country, one said, in trouble (9)
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2: Residue has scattered (3)

3: Messages transmitted about a mile (1-4)

4: Something good made by dwarf barber, perhaps! (6,7)

5: Derided beatnik rang (9)

6: Monsieur is immersed in unspecified French river (5)

7: Check out tailless fish swallowing speck of dust with hand-held device (6,7)

8: Rocks lure a breeding fish (4,9)

9: Designed dashing ten-ton pick-up (3-5,5)

10: Transplanted tissue from, originally, George Raft (5)

13: Created synopsis, but a detail I omitted is wrong (9)

15: Come back in just a pseudo pair of shoes (5)

19: DVD possibly missing model of natural filter (5)

21: In Germany, the monster returned from the east. (5)

24: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)




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