Crossword for Fri, 6/Sep/2019

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Across
1: We tangled with this old kitchen cloth (4,5)

4: African leader reversed stance on fabled writer (5)

7: With a new leader, huffier and more pompous (7)

9: Notice the parts of speech and get different parts of speech (7)

11: We had this mad, self-destructive urge (5,4)

12: At one time, gobbling up two tablespoons (5)

14: Thinks about frolicking like she's a sitcom actress (6,7)

16: Opening event in cruise: Iran art display (7-6)

19: Some unpretentious language! (5)

20: Loses ones extraordinary flexibility (9)

23: A strain crippled master craftsman (7)

24: Shorten a game (7)

25: Ruse duck (5)

26: Far out, man, to rile someone who tells cats what to do (9)

Down
1: Ripped off a group of hard-up Edwardians (5)

2: Your leg? (5)

3: Dionne's place in England (7)

5: Reformed drinker helps a water distributor (9,4)

6: Had to be infatuated (9)

8: Surprised fat southerner heading west to execute media mogul Turner (13)

9: Trains without commanding officer and suffers (5)

10: Six lions play fiddles (7)

13: Spooner's bar preserved for supported (9)

15: Also-ran gestates, bearing fruit? (7)

17: Polyamide used by many Londoners (5)

18: Devastation when head is cut off before a party - it may be eaten as first course (7)

21: Rue loss of rare bird (5)

22: Downright fine (5)





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