Crossword for Sat, 6/Jun/2020

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Across
1: Describes a northeastern state and some ancient Britons (7)

5: Yes. No. Maybe. Getting personal (5)

8: Essays about old dramatic works (9)

10: Reportedly went after pamphlet (5)

11: Check out tailless fish swallowing speck of dust with hand-held device (6,7)

13: Inactive side (3)

15: Free up fuel distribution; its appalling (7)

16: One politician's a brat (3)

17: Song is a gas (3)

18: >From play-by-play: Place where pitchers err and rock with various impurities (7)

20: In fear of wheat head (3)

21: Drive away roofing material before farmhouse becomes a target area (8,5)

23: Grill when involved in corruption (5)

24: See one store walled by brick, mostly (9)

25: Idler, forced to exercise, could be this! (5)

26: Left out cheese for parasites (7)
Down
1: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

2: Sitting in tree, sparrow's beginning song (5)

3: He acted badly and broke the rules (7)

4: Drink to them, not with them. (6,7)

5: Like a good actor (e.g. Redford playing 13 across?) (7)

6: Unimportant Emma? Still upset? (5,4)

7: However, you expect trouble at first (3)

9: Unfortunate rot in republic is everlasting (13)

12: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

14: Woods and the entire group making cut-off in advance (9)

18: Distended, having bolted a stew (7)

19: Nobleman, with honour from the Queen, in stud hangout? (7)

22: Oliver, and not Thomas, Hardy's monogram (5)

23: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)




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