Crossword for Sat, 7/Mar/2020

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Across
1: Cheaper oil, gas distributed in Island chains (13)

8: Later round without an opponent (3)

9: or creates new mobile sound system (3,6)

11: Might signal elbow exercise with this? (7)

12: Curse the watcher hiding terrible evil within. (3)

13: Child is to depart, finally (3)

14: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

16: E.g., told story about cave-men (11)

20: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)

22: Sounds like Brazilian soccer player may make a good fisher (7)

23: Dogged pamphlet for the auditor (7)

24: One going to a higher court backing Father George, cardinal worker (9)

25: A representative may be a scamp (3)

26: Grave study: code-breaking? (13)
Down
1: Gymnast produces hybrid of car and boat (7)

2: Beatnik embraces nude in nightclub (7)

3: Something cold in Candice Bergen's makeup (7)

4: Shine audio, $40? (5)

5: Spy pinched mere fragments of treaty (9)

6: Love street with lush bird (7)

7: Maiden from France lowers bloomers (7)

10: Reportedly scans orchestra section (5)

15: Extra-radical worker getting tan (9)

16: Drunk rises, holding tubular headgear (3,4)

17: Flower shop nosh about $41 (5)

18: Actress Myrna taking call nearby (7)

19: Dog (cross) exacerbated 16-down (7)

20: Twice take heart over raven writers so-called ground parrots (7)

21: 50 snakes' scales (7)

23: 'Colossus' artist loses interest (5)




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