Crossword for Sat, 25/Dec/2021

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Across
1: Rejecting crew's work on board, you rest at the stern (8,3)

7: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

9: A game stuffing ketchup in balloons (7)

10: German painter in a southern state (5)

11: Nerve cells that could make nose run (7)

12: Freedom of action in desert (7)

13: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

14: Dealers left out of catalogues (9)

16: Exercise is right for a one-time actor (9)

18: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

20: Get zany, swimming in exotic river (7)

22: Hole put in curtain by large cat (7)

23: Feeble deception overheard (5)

24: Eminent performer in some art form (7)

25: Attempt test (3)

26: No hefty role at sea for ship-launcher (5,2,4)

Down
1: Name of place where cat ate a little horse? (7)

2: Ill-conceived encore run for Edward VIII, say (9)

3: Excitedly saw open arms (7)

4: No French islands for the other Dr. Crane (5)

5: Patience may be enjoyed by this person perhaps? (5-4)

6: Rod, in military vehicle, produces material for leather worker (7)

7: We hear he pillaged while he played. (5)

8: The basis of coffee remainders (7)

14: Dairy stock entails wrangling around 2000 (9)

15: Someone in favour of wine in jolly good surroundings (9)

16: I'd party wildly after hitting this? (3,4)

17: Torch is terrible when head is in the sand. (7)

18: Kind of blue hereafter, at heart; this might tell what's to come? (3,4)

19: Mean and crafty about being slender and graceful (7)

21: Great tax year after new condition (5)

22: Weir contacting Hollywood star (5)





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