Crossword for Thu, 23/Jul/2020

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Across
1: Dance in Spooner's very cold prison (9)

6: Essential part of Cayce's power! (3)

10: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

11: Start reducing salt? (3)

12: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

13: Speak about bad deal in time for bargains (4,3)

15: Fishing equipment for MacGill? (7)

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

19: See why a convertible is nonsense (7)

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

23: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

24: Just grazed the pasty? (4-7)

25: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

26: Ultimately, dconstruire, to the French intellectual, is simple (9)
Down
2: Initially taking lumber off cart (7)

3: Priestess betrays Sen. Kefauver (5)

4: We err by demolishing an alcohol producer (7)

5: Risks finally taking strolls (7)

6: Unnecessary oath from ex-president I've allowed in (9)

7: Knight-errant or young man in distress (7)

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

9: Bug found in examination and in a full going-over (10,3)

14: Fatal crime may lead to damnation (6,3)

17: Fully equipped to follow it around (2,5)

18: Small songbirds destroyed mitt near diamond (7)

19: Have no uncertainty - speak out (7)

20: Story of a cold nobleman (7)

22: Rushes for middle of glossed lip (5)




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