Crossword for Thu, 2/Jan/2020

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Across
1: Sounds like Brazilian soccer player may make a good fisher (7)

5: Up in grassy area around Kentucky (7)

8: Student getting black eye, opening light transmitter (5)

9: Damn turncoat left country (9)

12: Location of cheating, fiercer gender (4,9)

13: Cleaning off a lion bust (9)

15: Flower shop nosh about $41 (5)

17: Notice District Governor in the cyperaceous plant? (5)

18: Pump witness (9)

19: End of Oslo peace process making things less clear (13)

22: Beautiful girls deal with optical instrument (9)

23: Muse about weed on top of Olympus (5)

25: Surrounded by asses, he tries again (7)

26: Dropping in once again to analyze Aretha's hit (7)

Down
2: Lick up pal (3)

3: Then, one crisis ends after call is for healthy exercises (13)

4: Infamous Ms. Spelling: 'Nothing's within reason!' (9)

5: Short line in letter back-fires (5)

6: Neil Armstrong initially brought back extraterrestrial (5)

7: A Hollywood star upset about paparazzi hub in crude social event (6,5)

10: Rise as in throw, perhaps, showing fitness to fly (13)

11: Mary-Jane crochets her Pop a jumper (11)

12: Icy turning, for example, on top (5)

14: Show sadness when fruit gets cut out (4,1,4)

16: Language making a comeback in modern Italy (5)

20: After arrival, pair of ghosts making noise of frustration (5)

21: Statues which aren't solid? (5)

24: Number One in facetiousness (3)





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