Crossword for Tue, 4/May/2021

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Across
1: Convertible has odd bar in instrument panel (9)

6: Icy turning, for example, on top (5)

9: Little weight spoils head honcho in sophisticated secondary institute (7,6)

12: Vanity items go wild (7)

13: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

14: Arsenals periodicals (9)

15: Nice friend flipped on some kind of acid (5)

17: Writer deserts pea-green match (5)

18: Play with exaggerated emotions made moral play (9)

20: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

22: The ultimate objective is not to achieve the goal. (2, 5, 1, 3)

23: Police questioning a retiring toon under the table (13)

25: Caesars standard golf score? (5)

26: End is close, doctor surreptitiously revealed (9)
Down
1: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)

2: Bone-picker starts scouring chronicles for one bent on retribution (9)

3: 29-acrosss kid almost climbing 14-down obstacle, keeping movers in daze (13)

4: Indict a sprinkling of reporters? (7)

5: Abandons the tents? (7)

7: Still drunk, sings in a light, rhythmic way (5)

8: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

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

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

16: Mirages, i.e., distorted visions (9)

18: Aged TV horse swallows a couple of turnips (7)

19: The French boys' instructions (7)

21: Racing off without first resting (5)

24: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)




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