Crossword for Fri, 29/Jul/2022

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Across
1: Do I have the capacity to be good-natured? (7)

5: Asian capital managed by board (7)

9: Upset top duo; I went and confessed (5,2,2,2)

10: Draw a stomach uprising (3)

11: Ned Lunig, thrown inside, openly seen to be crapulous (13)

12: Dyslexic's tired and distressed (5)

13: Joker idled lazily among ring leaders (7)

15: Compensation check matures (7)

18: Just conservative (5)

20: Designed dashing ten-ton pick-up (3-5,5)

22: Requires five kills, or a single accurate shot. (3)

23: Pretty girl takes part in outdoor cooking? No just toys (6, 5).

25: Desires taking time and interest for musicians (7)

26: Artist's entrance (7)

Down
2: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

3: Bugging two items of personal adornment (9)

4: Drained journo covers polly deadlock (7)

5: Place new requisition about the brotherhood (7)

6: African region of birth (5)

7: Float me a loan covering breakfast, perhaps (7)

8: ...near fishing boats stocked with cold bait (5,8)

9: Tidy up and clean floor finally and decisively (4,3,3,3)

11: Cull out from top ten (3)

14: Mongrels at each others' throats in this ruthless world. (3, 3, 3)

16: Film star nuts about sheep (3,4)

17: Hesper's fresh fields (7)

18: Italian composer making endless noise, sir (7)

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

21: One hundred-odd bits of bombs in some projectiles initially (5)

24: Fiction position (3)





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