Crossword for Fri, 2/Apr/2021

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Across
2: Police questioning a retiring toon under the table (13)

8: Stabs at centre-left defences (7)

9: Final recipient of product ensured indiscreetly. (3, 4)

10: Tendon's abnormal growth is in remission (5)

11: T.V. picture is said to produce an image that's larger than life. (9)

13: Anyway - no! (3)

14: I see marks on jumbled party favors (11)

16: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

18: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

20: Prepare too much for apparent downpour (9)

22: Loud den has style! (5)

23: Not being particular, Xena and I moved to Connecticut (7)

25: Foolish fancy makes him race around (7)

26: I'll go geld guys - suprisingly he laughs raucously. (7, 6)
Down
1: Thirteenth in a series, ER's about an Aussie racketeer who took repeated slams? (7)

2: Imaginary childhood? (7)

3: Rejecting crew's work on board, you rest at the stern (8,3)

4: A Gore follows a Ryan (5)

5: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

6: Heroin's prepared approaching land (7)

7: Contracts for primarily nuclear missiles (7)

11: Dyslexic's tired and distressed (5)

12: Fancied poem composed in comfort (5,2,4)

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

16: To grin, I become disorderly (7)

17: Choice bergamot subdues growler (7)

18: PIcture lines as in visions. (7)

19: Too bad! Drive back for Italian wine (7)

21: Singers in a special Tosca production (5)

24: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)




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