Crossword for Wed, 20/Mar/2024

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Across
1: Starts to read each chapter after pausing for review (5)

3: Hearty policeman plugs frozen treats (3,6)

7: Foretold that the wine would be finished (9)

10: Stan's partner is central to Follies (5)

11: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

12: I'll be stuffed if I'll deal with him!. (11)

13: Formic neutralises hydrochloric. (7)

15: Knock out acrobat's last daring feat (5)

17: Song about river, ocean, and lake (5)

19: Turn to promotion on clothing (7)

20: Sent one page rewritten in military lingo (11)

22: Anger that is constraining response (3)

23: Peeled, making Pop embarrassed? (5)

24: Snarling assistant to devil worshipers (9)

25: Itinerant labor packing fruit for Great White Hunter? (5,4)

26: I competed with climbers on the walls? (5)
Down
1: Tick off and send back into custody to conceal rip-off (9)

2: Fold suit and undershirt (5)

3: Admittedly lying about times tabulated (7)

4: How the obese appear to hunt? (4,5)

5: Then, one crisis ends after call is for healthy exercises (13)

6: Fish in sea initially react to heat, perhaps (5)

8: Check out tailless fish swallowing speck of dust with hand-held device (6,7)

9: Extinct birds accomplish return of earth (5)

14: Herb upset Rico; also with little hesitation (9)

16: Had to be infatuated (9)

18: Reel around in circles (5)

19: A superior helper (7)

20: Annoying ad for toaster design? (3-2)

21: Alternative Lennon music? Its ho-hum (5)




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