Crossword for Thu, 27/Feb/2020

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Across
1: Man sees bananas in a bunch (2,5)

4: Hide the real solution (7)

8: Add pantry to make dude! (9)

9: Gather together for a church service. (5)

10: Monarch met monarch in even open space for coin-operated machines (7,6)

13: Told about Trotsky hoarding cash (3,2,2)

14: Before much time has elapsed a nobleman takes that over there (5,2)

15: Awful bed lace causes fiasco (7)

18: A n-novel cordial (7)

21: Repeated note to help player? (6-7)

22: Anchors in peat bogs (5)

23: Columbine takes stage during repeated Iolanthe opening, in blue-green (9)

25: Quicker in rising, doctor left Veterans Centre (7)

26: Fish or insect for captain (7)

Down
1: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

2: Curate ran immediately back inside tower (7)

3: Bats staying in dark (7)

4: Clothilda is carrying a parcel (3)

5: Announced at first match: 'You are on the net. This is unprofessional.' (7)

6: Rumors of corn among grass (7)

7: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

10: Boob implant cups: sad hoax in line with 15-down (8,3)

11: Polite fellow, but a slippery character (7)

12: We blame knitter for small woolly jumper (3-4)

16: Ed goes in cleaner place for Sleepy (7)

17: Advice on clues to be anagrammed (7)

19: Interminably bother crook for one pasta dish (7)

20: Gambler in the middle to call and raise (5,2)

23: Freshen the atmosphere (3)

24: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)





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