Crossword for Tue, 21/Feb/2023

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Across
1: Make an attempt at a basket weaving (4,1,4)

5: Fill-in professional almost rewrote the column (5)

8: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

10: Intruders bury proles in pieces (11).

11: Male meandering in back of sedan burned 'Sugar' (7)

12: Play faster in last 3/4 of piece with bass held backward (5,2)

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

17: Beware of these they show the funny side of the month! (4,2,5)

18: Not for a profit, true (7)

20: Something cold in Candice Bergen's makeup (7)

22: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

23: Therefore, finish off this bit of work (3)

25: Kitchen appliance is pumpkin-colored, apart from the top (5)

26: Segregate horses around the object of a hunt (6,3)

Down
1: Half disapprove of old king (3)

2: Core principle of taxi-o-meter? (5)

3: Write off aggregate (5)

4: Tour with crazy Mrs. Barton (9)

5: Free trade: highest bird for lowest bill(5)

6: Shredded chad, he decrees, is one ingredient (7,6)

7: Actress Tori, lacking direction, is getting the characters out of order(11)

9: Travel - pioneering art form (13)

11: Orchestra I'm reorganizing for certain conductor (11)

14: Requires five kills, or a single accurate shot. (3)

15: Act upset over kindergarten's interruption of seaside dessert course (9)

16: Standard style of music rejected (3)

19: Relative clause ultimately adopted by the kind (5)

20: The Irish are working for small clubs (5)

21: Discounting all odds, teen assured to succeed (5)

24: Feel sick from crack? (3)





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