Crossword for Sun, 9/Apr/2023

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Across
1: Carries small cup and helps out (7)

5: Aria Sue belted for a very big hunk?(7)

8: Partially hear the noise coming from the ground (7)

10: Running back almost blew grand (5)

11: Tribal emblem starts to take on taboo, erotic meaning (5)

12: Aroused with short tutu, mesmeric midsection, and perfume (9)

13: Photographers showed up with noodle soup (9)

14: Many sound prospects for prospectors (5)

17: Lease bad tripod (5)

18: Ale curing outbreak of nervous pain (9)

19: Entire portion is healthful (9)

22: Hum like a bee? (5)

23: I'm to get older in picture (5)

24: Turn to promotion on clothing (7)

25: Took hold of the note and tore it (7)

26: Beginning to send poor around north and south for support (7)
Down
1: Show singular glasses? (9)

2: Dickensian Iron Age? (4,5)

3: Fifty are returning after the last hemp mixture has a short life cycle (9)

4: Changed musician not so offensively pious (13)

6: Reliable, timeless jet (5)

7: Prepared for real active time (5)

9: 'Ransom'? Lame. Run 'Rocky I', 'II', 'III', etc. (5,8)

10: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)

14: Welsh resort - and no dull resort (9)

15: Does Rod go to pieces with kind but impractical reformers? (2-7)

16: Win, or find an heir (9)

19: ... squeeze in girdle as we speak (5)

20: Approve a constant beast (5)

21: You audibly ram partner (3)




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