Crossword for Sat, 20/Apr/2024

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Across
1: Throw mud at information (5)

5: For motivation we are led by a Demon and Frog. (7)

9: Vicar regularly outdated technology (1.1.1.)

10: Open present yonder (4,5)

11: Finish suddenly, like an oboe? (1, 4, 2, 3, 3)

12: Sort of pale after what one desires gets squashed (7)

13: Struggle with pieces of green apple (7)

16: Heading from the Dakotas to the Little Big Horn, general is waylaid by a person who can look into the future, and backs out (7)

17: Ailment moving one to get nourishment (7)

18: One-time philosophical teaching turned him to classics (13)

23: Introduction of inert ions with mercurial elements (9)

24: Bite and flip over -- one way to win a wrestling match (3)

25: Hoyts odd shops abolish horse mints (7)

26: Long time to the third of June (5)
Down
1: Lucifer lived backward (5)

2: Mild expletive for a sea-faring people? (9)

3: Marking out cuttings of geraniums (9)

4: Telling of beer jokes brings uproars (9)

5: Unable to act, I cast 'Rent' (5)

6: Small area of land for unchanging Chinese (5)

7: Not here? No, no! (5)

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

12: Cryptic constructor, perhaps, dims somehow in value (9)

13: Consents to accepting decline in rates of change (9)

14: Is big lady in tatters forever? (9)

15: New more whingeing talk of lung disease (9)

19: Entertains crowds (5)

20: Slow passage where rebel leader joins in gaol-break (5)

21: Leaders of South Korea in disgrace suffer slippages (5)

22: Call unexpectedly, find Dad at home! (3,2)




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