Crossword for Thu, 31/Mar/2022

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Across
1: Like a high ranking diplomat's awful ambrosia salad (13)

8: Four tight ends holding a private conversation (4-1-4)

10: Crew had dinner, we hear (5)

11: Blabbermouth a little later on is noisy, venomous creature (7)

12: Confederate poet returned with rather less sparkle (7)

13: Drunk, I'm one hunk of beef in bed (7)

14: Each time, I lost message for Alice (3,2)

15: Third stack of paper rises to the top. (5)

18: Superficial passage stuck into pig (7)

21: Briefly viewed bigot's heart, opened like a boil (7)

22: Shorten a spine with boron injection (7)

24: sliced again with cuter swing (5)

25: Flimsy cord around basket material (9)

26: Beat it and ran, for example, with Girl Scout ingredients (9,4)
Down
1: Flower festival is pointless (5)

2: An animal which flies high but comes back for a place to wash (7)

3: Swore a verb was incorrect (7)

4: Late, reflective Freud revolting, in part (7)

5: Not being particular, Xena and I moved to Connecticut (7)

6: Plain and simple giblet stuffing (7)

7: Great flow dissipated into phosphorescent aura (9)

9: Unscripted part for head librarian (2,3)

13: First popular promise - extreme appeal (9)

15: Risks making Chinese detective dry up (7)

16: He stirs up a one who had referred to him in the past. (7)

17: Little bit quiet about Old Dick before the end (7)

18: Sounds like actor Stephen's a scavenger (7)

19: After arrival, pair of ghosts making noise of frustration (5)

20: Crazy bald guy in Beetle (7)

23: Pitchers were transported south (5)




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