Crossword for Wed, 19/Apr/2017

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

9: The stagecoach industry (9)

10: After a second, whip and rip (5)

11: Witticism provided theme (5)

13: Dirty Targa term is a four-letter word (9)

14: Beat it and ran, for example, with Girl Scout ingredients (9,4)

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

18: Collector is slow mover garnering southern selenium (9)

20: Some feudal assassin in Japan (5)

22: Annual earnings can include profit from experience (5)

23: Woman losing head after another fall (9)

26: How a diver might marry (4,3,6)
Down
1: French ladies made Sam mad (7)

2: Bolted up tiptop earthenware (5)

3: Encourage horse led with direction. (3)

4: First get a French weapon. (3)

5: Discover treasure hiding in plain sight (5)

6: Drunkard turns up near beach, reversing new habit, to sleep fitfully (4,3,4)

7: Fresh ardor mellows outbursts on the highway (4,5)

8: Plots get Cuban revolutionary leader in a terrible mess (7)

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

13: Thumb Drum? (3)

14: Auction to stem persuasive patter (5,4)

15: Top of sports car the French painted on time is deep red (7)

16: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

17: Dishonesty perpetrated by crooked raven in Kentucky (7)

19: Almost all the foliage has to go. (5)

21: Lovely to have an hour inside for recess (5)

24: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

25: In the manner of a girl (3)




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