Crossword for Wed, 15/Nov/2023

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Across
1: Understanding

8: Spanish forts

10: 'Savvy?'

11: Enduring

12: Stage direction

14: Festive celebrations

15: Defeat decisively

16: Another helping

18: Kind of illusion

19: Assuages

20: Re, to chemists

22: Long green

25: Abundance

26: One who keeps dropping things

Down
1: Run off

2: First choices

3: Ornaments that resemble diamonds

4: Some need them to practice

5: Goal

6: It's game

7: Exposing human folly to ridicule

9: Storage cylinders

12: Hazarding a guess: manager of a political candidate?

13: Work from home, in a way

14: One angling for dinner?

17: Guitar attachment

18: Alone, when preceded by 'by'

21: Curved moldings

23: Capture

24: In the time left





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