Crossword for Tue, 7/Apr/2020

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Across
1: Clip securing a bow at the front of sister's dress (5)

4: One who administers drug treatments puts me in band at Hat Head (9)

8: Unusual? A French name, a short rogue (9)

10: Short time for the Irish (5)

12: How a diver might marry (4,3,6)

13: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

15: Neat plastic hash pipes (9)

17: Worshipper of all gods would gasp at theft (9)

18: Thumb Drum? (3)

19: Liquidation of one country led by pair of fools (13)

23: Rushes for middle of glossed lip (5)

24: I am a blond, going to pot around the midsection (9)

25: Share chain of hills with pear tree percher? (9)

26: The short one may be drawn (5)

Down
1: The man with lack of skill shows cruelty (13)

2: Tolerate small stream (5)

3: Real estate brochure (5)

5: Does not see the advertisement because it is in the wrong section. (13)

6: Frequently held back by internet formalities (5)

7: Spy pinched mere fragments of treaty (9)

9: Designed dashing ten-ton pick-up (3-5,5)

11: Plowmen let Amy spread job statute (10,3)

14: European arrangement between the French and the German (9)

15: Sounds like a bright child (3).

16: Drawing, for example, a bit of a cartoon (3)

20: Altogether steep (5)

21: Some of the best came stumbling south (5)

22: Main nerve carries most central portion (5)





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