Crossword for Sun, 20/Feb/2022

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Across
1: Pal teased about crazy snack food (6,7)

7: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

9: Exchange recipe describing a small amount of relish on rolled up taco (11)

11: Game for drunkard (5)

12: Rev. Spooner says 'The person massaging Reagan is illiterate' (3-6)

13: No nuns die tormented by lewd insinuations. (9)

16: Church assembly contributing to heresy? No dice! (5)

17: Subdue aunt, chasing Chief of Detectives (5)

18: Gets behind in cooking Creole dish (9)

19: Empty cell on mountain? Most ingenious! (9)

21: So sad coming back, Pops (5)

23: Exchange concealed proprietary knowledge (5,6)

25: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

26: Tint bark clogs to provide foot support (8,5)
Down
1: Herd one of the cattle? (5)

2: Wander around inside territory (3)

3: Tippecanoe is home to a nut (5)

4: Climbers in tumbling tailspins (9)

5: On your feet! (8,5)

6: Diamonds for newlywed, coating grand frail spanner (3-6)

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

10: Rhyme in Old English to run the show (7).

13: Telltale churning up dirt on CIA (9)

14: Outrageous trio of Italians bursting in on divorcee and me (7)

15: Drop in rent keeping me housed after last month (9)

20: I turn, lost, in Italian city (5)

22: Shiny flat-bottomed boats heading north (5)

24: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)




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