Crossword for Thu, 9/Mar/2023

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Across
1: Appeal, as I kneel, revealing special light in my eyes? (5)

4: Work independently in France, catching fish (9)

8: Duck turning up initially looking like a Walt Disney animated goose (7)

9: Sort of aircraft axe? (7)

10: Write Dorothy's aunt into the motif (5)

12: 20-across Love to be a boy on a farm; its a means of reconciliation (5,6)

13: See, you are a cad. (3)

14: Illness I catch performing exercises? (13)

17: Barmaid slipped, leading to a spectacular disaster. (6, 7)

18: Requires five kills, or a single accurate shot. (3)

19: Usual resort for dads sister after lunch finished (5)

20: Lightweight cat (5)

21: Beatnik embraces nude in nightclub (7)

23: Al Fresco is to do our cooking (7)

25: Kept definitely in step (9)

26: Whip stuff with energy (5)
Down
1: Delicate stem is enlightening (5,4)

2: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

3: Jack's described part of a church (5)

4: Taking ones cue from subsequent courtship (9,4)

5: Loses ones extraordinary flexibility (9)

6: Unappealing environment for a snooze (3)

7: Discussed one who broadcasts mistake (5)

9: Actor works on two dialects (5,8)

11: 'Shut up or else,' con snarled (7)

13: Makes a comment about trendy vice (5, 2)

15: General's horse galloping to dangerous coasts (3,6)

16: Instrument for beater caught with liquor (5,4)

18: Tie torn coats (7)

20: Left in tonic, it poisons sight (5)

22: Later round without an opponent (3)

24: Nothing we have to pay (3)




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