Crossword for Wed, 27/Jul/2022

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Across
1: Ship sails with masts surrounded by doom (7)

6: Short time for the Irish (5)

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

10: Backblock not all there (3)

11: Charmed - then dance about (9)

13: Make an average float (5)

15: Nonsense still produced illegally (9)

16: Requires reporting massages (5)

17: Tender translator of runes (5)

18: Greg is stone-faced, in sum? (9)

19: Call girl sting nabs head of Moral Majority (5)

20: Leaving no trail, Penny and Les hid in the middle of Sussex (9)

22: Perform part of play (3)

23: Criticise a computer analysis of famous passage (6,5)

25: Notes spent in Germany (5)

26: Go over the same ground? (7)

Down
1: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)

2: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

3: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

4: German painter in a southern state (5)

5: Again Italian couple is late (7)

6: Worthless even when recycled (3)

7: Wizards covered in liquor and beer...it might be for charity (7, 4)

8: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

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

13: Mend a split state (11)

14: Mixed greens and teals, so dad's remodeled (6,5)

18: Sanctions mailed through fool (7)

21: Gantry in Hilton Hotel, Mermaid Beach (5)

22: Direct object (3)

23: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

24: Former name for joint audition (3)





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