Crossword for Fri, 26/Aug/2022

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Across
1: Person believing - except for Satanic evil (5)

4: Arranger of mere songs put in the shade (4,5)

9: Leo, wealthy, wig awry, looking awfully old! (6,4,3)

11: Shredded chad, he decrees, is one ingredient (7,6)

13: Partially remodel attic, extending framework (7)

16: Grow, taking head of iceberg to show again (5)

17: The lowest point in a dire section (5)

18: Tipping for what's on a menu (7)

19: My gal talking to Italian at the table? (5,8)

22: Double profit repeatedly (5,3,5)

25: So the ref stands by score, after ejecting a couple of starters (9)

26: Unable to act, I cast 'Rent' (5)

Down
1: Sounds like a wolf on the coast (3)

2: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

3: Saw guard (5)

4: Montana contract cut back (5)

5: Sarcastic critic, alas drunk, missing bit of comedy (9)

6: Grown-up kids' tender hearts god broke? (9)

7: The time before the first woman (3)

8: Playwright rethinking copyright wrangle (4,7)

10: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)

11: Give Adele a seat in said fortress (7)

12: It's exciting, for example, holding a tongue (7)

14: Cast light upon awfully tired aria (9)

15: Deranged person ate tongue (9)

20: Blow the whistle on the end of Chinese burn (5)

21: Irish terrorists meet queen - one from Baghdad, perhaps (5)

22: Five kills one. (3)

23: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)

24: Scale Ten after taxes (3)





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