Crossword for Sun, 18/Jul/2021

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Across
1: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

7: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

9: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

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

11: Love sounded wrong for aunt and primate (5-4)

12: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)

13: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

16: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)

19: Direct object (3)

20: I'm to intercede without delay (9)

23: Period email feature (3)

24: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

25: Song is a gas (3)

26: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)
Down
1: Favorite obsession, love touching undergarment (9)

2: Do people in the medical speciality consider law? (9)

3: Headless rodent left by bird (5)

4: You should remember this about French menu phrase (1,2,4)

5: Gee, Etna exploding can't be more than twenty years old (7)

6: Person pressing a lawsuit torched one reptile? (9)

7: True side (5)

8: Englishman opening a can to dine at home (3,2)

13: Stateside bananas: most like a rock (9)

14: Friend captures random Arctic sound (9)

15: Remember, mine cries in distress (9)

17: Model wife, after divorce, gets more than enough (7)

18: Dopey met hero with a proposition (7)

20: In Howard's End - one has a passage here from Forster (5)

21: Backroom houses last component of engine (5)

22: Frost over mid-January during epic exploit (3,2)




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