Crossword for Sat, 3/Oct/2020

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Across
1: Rejecting help, soldiers taking numbers for identification (9)

5: Strength of army (5)

9: Something good made by dwarf barber, perhaps! (6,7)

10: Group of eight initially outwits coup to enter Tripoli (5)

13: Its neat for a vessel to have this appearance (9)

15: Ordering a meal is causing uneasiness (7)

16: Red tint disguises missile (7)

17: Jimmy Garner's cops (7)

18: Mona catching sun with quarterback (7)

20: Nasty sea bandit did not drink. (9)

21: Imagine 500 papers in a bundle (5)

22: Menzies-Carr alliance keeps eye on silly timers (3-3,7)

25: Considers taxes. (5)

26: Our neighbour recorded singles in the sub-continent (9)
Down
2: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

3: Scale Ten after taxes (3)

4: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

5: Just grazed the pasty? (4-7)

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

7: Serious article penned by Hemingway (7)

8: First bud to emerge in flower. (5)

11: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)

12: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

14: Feeling threatened, suggested concealing identity (11)

17: Its undergoing change regarding the performer (7)

19: Some wear medals when carrying weapons (5)

23: Polygraph unexpectedly traps vandal (3)

24: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)




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