Crossword for Mon, 23/Mar/2020

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Across
1: Caress one grand puzzlemaster (5)

4: Victor receives this prize literally or decoration (4,5)

9: Allow feathers to disappoint. (3, 4)

10: Digs the reforms, having vision (7)

11: Deliver a sweetener to mix with your date? (5,4,4)

13: A key passage (5)

14: Young birds or seals may be heard (7)

17: Object to professional examination (7)

19: Shower time, Bonzo? Spring, I hear (5)

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

23: Glowering over textile activity (7)

24: Savings division of e-banking gets enormous returns (4,3)

25: Poked with a knife, one cat finally howled outside (9)

26: A vine sometimes can seem green (5)
Down
1: Offering resistance, cattle run wild (9)

2: Call to drink like feeding ducks? (7,2)

3: We hear sniffer is acquainted with the facts (5)

4: First get a French weapon. (3)

5: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

6: Noodling ragtime might make you move back and forth (7)

7: Throw mud at information (5)

8: Many sound prospects for prospectors (5)

12: Playwright rethinking copyright wrangle (4,7)

15: Tiger seen roaming National Park (9)

16: Bird dog devouring bad lad (4,5)

18: Personal belief: IPO in no trouble (7)

20: Laid off, breadwinner's starting to wing it (2-3)

21: Sinister, in bloody honour. (5)

22: Moulding material to be included in upcoming miniseries (5)

24: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)




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