Crossword for Sat, 25/Sep/2021

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Across
1: Captivated

4: Treaties

7: Skull

9: Return, of a sort

10: Grown-up

11: They're crooned near cradles

12: Something to prove

13: Alone, when preceded by 'by'

15: What you choose to say

18: Fusillade

21: Modern messages

22: Like lymphatic tissue

23: Bold

24: Worse than cruel

25: Supplied medicine to

26: Law
Down
1: Like some evening, in 'South Pacific'

2: Speak ill of

3: Scot-free

4: Make ready

5: Cough syrup ingredient

6: Battle of the ___

8: Bury

9: Cowardly, in slang

14: Self-employed professional

16: Shrinks back

17: Conceptualized

19: Italian alternative

20: Belly

21: Lacking life




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