Crossword for Tue, 5/Apr/2022

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Across
1: Dopey met hero with a proposition (7)

4: Get sun darkened between California, Iowa, and city in Italy (7)

8: Couple gain control of schooner, for example (3-6)

10: Entice substitute to drink. (5)

11: Finish suddenly, like an oboe? (1, 4, 2, 3, 3)

13: Big Bird has cut off music director (9)

15: Fires partner in investment firm, we hear (5)

17: Leather wavered, I hear (5)

18: Italian article held by terrible regular or irregular soldier (9)

19: Actor works on two dialects (5,8)

22: Tine expert no good (5)

23: See Dennis, unfortunately, in poverty (9)

25: Closely follow nit in room facing east (7)

26: To be groovy, must not be left off. (5, 2)

Down
1: Child is to depart, finally (3)

2: Manipulated Cleo, queen with a silver tongue (9)

3: Wake up Hoad, beaten in motorists facility (9)

4: Orchestra playing for farm animal (4,5)

5: Right to possess an address (5)

6: Scotsman turns to notice drifter (5)

7: Is Pat suitable? (3)

9: Half disapprove of old king (3)

11: Charged a couple of hundred, getting exploited (7)

12: Break up the rock group from hell. (7)

14: One applying pressure to eight mixed up in back rent? (9)

15: Supporting truth nearly buried in con game (9)

16: Greenest state with the least elevation (9)

19: Emblem of sovereignty that was a quarter-pounder? (5)

20: Contrarily accepted gold slab (5)

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

22: Plan to return with woman (3)

24: Sounds like a bright child (3).





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