Crossword for Fri, 28/Feb/2020

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Across
1: An oral examination is not advised if one has this sort of foresight (4,5)

5: Retro gents in exotic parks (5)

7: City official spread rumor, initially (5)

8: Cast Miss Stone for dewy quality (9)

11: Fixes price and French proof of sale (7)

12: Fodder derived from Swiss lake (7)

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

15: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)

16: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

17: Invention to trick four into a stupor (11)

20: One eating little head of lettuce held by cook in hot water (7)

21: Sour substance made from grape plant and fish (7)

22: Sailor Paul in oilcloth (9)

23: Poplar is like a writer (5)

25: At one time, gobbling up two tablespoons (5)

26: Always heading off without getting paid (9)

Down
1: Candy, Rod, Gump all confused (7)

2: Cook small fish. (3)

3: Valor of Homer is incredible (7)

4: Check out tailless fish swallowing speck of dust with hand-held device (6,7)

5: Iridescent stone contains quirk having to do with vision (7)

6: Southern U.S. writer Dickey's introduction put on hold (7)

9: End inner-value conversion in UK taxes (6,7)

10: Partially hear the noise coming from the ground (7)

14: Poorer and more squalid, heading from south to north (7)

16: Italian rice: boil, stir too (7)

17: Associate to give 25-down up, cryptically? (7)

18: Overlook truck license expiration, at first (7)

19: A tendency to bungle and cry, 'Near upset!' (7)

24: Nightwear and jersey top added in afterthought (3)





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