Crossword for Fri, 8/Nov/2019

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Across
1: Cut up after having gambled, with death perhaps? (5)

4: A single AA battery produces no pain (9)

7: Saturday: Wild nature walk (7)

8: Beats Greek bread, Mr. Buchanan! (7)

10: Consumer stirred tea in emergency room (5)

11: Feeble queens former partner is of feminine gender (6,3)

13: Expel the ones who show up (7)

15: You once impounded mutt for UK band (3,4)

17: Drag inside remains of the struggle for survival (3,4)

18: Top maintenance one hundred, including rising unemployment benefits sounds lovely! (7)

19: Accent on three feet as a place of rest? (9)

21: Away sick and lifeless (5)

22: Oblique demand for a new church (7)

24: Sift around half-killed transporter (3-4)

25: Hard-wearing but onerous tax (5-4)

26: Blasts most of eucalypt stumps (5)
Down
1: Tiredness ruined Supreme Court Justice in minority (9)

2: Challenge the bench in retaliation. (13)

3: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

4: Pointer: 'Start off thin' (5)

5: God, transforming first day into last night, was received (3)

6: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

8: Apparition in Hampton maze (7)

9: Ships use up aid at sea; remain in a grave situation (4,2,7)

12: Girl mostly into turning inside out - it's never ending! (11)

14: Gee, Etna exploding can't be more than twenty years old (7)

16: Strangely enough, cat's lease keeps getting bigger (9)

20: Gloomy semi-dull firmament (5)

22: Residue has scattered (3)

23: Anyway - no! (3)




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