Crossword for Wed, 21/Oct/2020

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Across
1: Politician in, ie, outback America is behaving rashly (9)

5: Madison's statue (5)

7: This food won't give you a heavy feeling (5,4)

9: Minor Roman deity with a list of the animals of a region (5)

11: Mend a split state (11)

13: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)

14: Free sex, lips in beer; it's beyond words (13)

15: Dine out and stop being vague (13)

19: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

20: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

22: Part of stair is erect (5)

24: Manipulated Cleo, queen with a silver tongue (9)

25: Mrs Schmidt's penny is fake (5)

26: Bushes put the kibosh on Reno's deal (9)
Down
1: 'Wrong and sick,' I quote... almost (7)

2: Unholy father backed shrew (5)

3: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)

4: Dance to old home recording (3 4)

5: Inactive side (3)

6: Limbaugh, getting into cable, is liable to be overwhelmed (9)

8: Cruel to waste money (5)

10: To confuse, immerse a priest in drink. (5)

12: Drunkard turns up near beach, reversing new habit, to sleep fitfully (4,3,4)

14: Our neighbour recorded singles in the sub-continent (9)

15: Children nicely holding back secret (5)

16: Reportedly pull down more money at work (5)

17: Press or key source of metal (4,3)

18: American storyteller captures 150 English men before Sunday (7)

21: Stretched form of a verb (5)

23: Road without a pole (4)




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