Crossword for Wed, 9/Aug/2023

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Across
1: Heavy metal group X (4)

3: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

7: Unskillful partner wearing gold ring, at first (7)

8: British aviators took off and held a drawing (7)

10: Fighter to join around fourth of April (7)

11: Hold torn veil held by busy worker (7)

12: Changed musician not so offensively pious (13)

16: Something good made by dwarf barber, perhaps! (6,7)

19: After starting, speedy trip across (7)

21: I'm great, composing music (7)

23: Tories put out after Liberal leader hangs around (7)

24: I have followed a coach, shouting insults (7)

25: Hostile warning: one man has captured the queen (11)

26: Half disapprove of old king (3)
Down
1: Unwilling to destroy train sets (9)

2: Ring bearing rare gem (5)

3: Foresees a three iron, just as Cassandra did. (7, 6)

4: Amplification device for 'Murder, a Novel' (7)

5: Scrabble piece having D and a diacritical mark (5)

6: Boy returning the Spanish server (5)

8: Jewish leader second in the shower (5)

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

13: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

14: In all, just a little peak. (3)

15: Me in a green tent's ultimate in harmony (9)

17: Soles crushed rich soil (5)

18: Tailless seabird atop family veranda (7)

19: Unprepared, a little gerbil darted the wrong way (2-3)

20: Threefold test (5)

22: A period set around one Dostoyevsky character (5)




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