Crossword for Fri, 20/Oct/2023

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Across
1: Prohibit fanatics grabbing British records showing checks and balances? (9)

6: Ms. Messing to remove underwear? (5)

9: European sage knew a novel novel (9,4)

10: A monster making some angry phone-calls (7)

11: Pitchers were transported south (5)

12: Clearances for the first couple of characters to find answers. (11)

16: Number One in facetiousness (3)

17: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

18: Overcome by disappointment from the rare bonk going awry (11)

19: Birds in the wilderness (5)

20: Accept a double pint before reeling over (7)

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

25: Year inside for undone expert (5)

26: Mikes good tackling ice tower (6,3)
Down
1: Begin new life (5)

2: Great tax year after new condition (5)

3: Gather together with former U.S. statesman in the audience (5)

4: Canoe lost in sea (5)

5: Hopped up and won easily in sudden spurt (6-3)

6: Dotty rides around corrals with someone who passes out (9)

7: Bill accepts new slant in Jack's Magic Ladder? (9)

8: When you work it out, Alfie, we fish (7)

13: Evidently, the French are mixing heavenly (9)

14: Long Rhine sequence in Wagner's work (9)

15: Switch trains without interest and sit (9)

17: Drained journo covers polly deadlock (7)

20: Troubled tenor with a transposition (2,3,5)

21: Glint of silica in neat crystal (5)

22: Had dressed formally without a hat (5)

23: Making out and squealing after the top comes off? (5)




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