Crossword for Tue, 5/Sep/2023

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Across
1: Mad buccaneer is beheaded (5)

4: Soldier embracing a bawdy Italian patriot (9)

8: Links to some 7-down (5)

9: The joint action of substances is messy; ring doctor! (9)

11: Fifty are returning after the last hemp mixture has a short life cycle (9)

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

15: Someone criticizing _End of Days_: 'Not so hot' (7)

16: About doctor Cliff difficult to leave fine white linen fabric (7)

18: Plots get Cuban revolutionary leader in a terrible mess (7)

19: Saves and secures stranger (7)

20: Pathological bumbler holds a record (5)

21: In hindsight, schedule recorded for a blast (9)

22: Some doctors oust head of Johnson and Johnson? (9)

24: Path of planet - or particle (5)

25: Victor receives this prize literally or decoration (4,5)

26: Excessively sentimental dunderhead in the river (5)
Down
1: Grows wrinkled (9)

2: Has beach porno upset those repulsed by Web developers? (13)

3: One may be a very long time (3)

5: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

6: Black arts and demons concerned with Homer's issue? (4,7)

7: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

9: Form of address valued for the auditor taken unawares (9)

10: Unfortunate rot in republic is everlasting (13)

12: Pick up line for first man swinging both ways? (5,2,4)

13: Tears material, tears material (9)

17: Actors judged as eunuchs (9)

22: Cleaning aid possessed by Fragonard (3)

23: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

24: Choose to take the top off (3)




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