Crossword for Wed, 28/Feb/2024

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Across
2: Many sound prospects for prospectors (5)

5: Dorothy's aunt incensed sheikdom (7)

9: Mischievous child learning to beg (7)

11: Approaching street, notice a crunchy snack(7)

12: Poles in trouble with character from Greece (7)

13: Run amok while covered in red snack food (7)

14: A favourite car of Seattle natives. (11)

16: Former name for joint audition (3)

17: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

18: Organized fatso follows start of precise measurement including pound of seasoning (11)

19: Any environment for car maintenance (7)

20: State goddess gets in first (7)

23: Curse the watcher hiding terrible evil within. (3)

24: New Testament stories about gifts (7)

25: Heart of delicatessen, certainly, is meat (7)

26: Englishman opening a can to dine at home (3,2)
Down
1: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)

3: Funny dame getting red (5)

4: Firm rear end (5)

5: His stable is unstable, it's found (9)

6: Detains stranger as a substitute (7)

7: Double profit repeatedly (5,3,5)

8: Do people in the medical speciality consider law? (9)

10: Ships use up aid at sea; remain in a grave situation (4,2,7)

14: Extremely tense many times about a private conversation (4-1-4)

15: Drink is flowing, by the sound of it, where Magna Carta was signed (9)

18: Food for youth, say (7)

20: Fiber extracted from thistles (5)

21: Bolted up tiptop earthenware (5)

22: A revolutionary New England state or an Indian state (5)




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