Crossword for Wed, 27/Apr/2022

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Across
1: Sound of river crossing (3)

3: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

9: Bad blood from taking head off to slay William (3,4)

11: Blamed and nailed copper, scam's leader on the inside (7)

12: National official is here, carrying identification, after challenge overwhelms local center (4-9)

14: One hero, perhaps! (7)

15: Legendary rich guy gets called, then folds (7)

16: Our tree worked out how to send out in another way (7)

18: Hikers' path around Virginia is hard work (7)

21: Tint bark clogs to provide foot support (8,5)

23: May start to get sick? Catch postal container (7)

24: Coarse Nicaraguan conceals a dangerous element (7)

25: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

26: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

Down
1: With Pat, I persevere, biting back final words? (7)

2: Points about dangerous wires can invigorate. (7)

4: I shall be sick! (3)

5: Departed after her heart put in high spirits (5)

6: Cheaper oil, gas distributed in Island chains (13)

7: Boys terse brief for pearl producers (7)

8: Tranquillises extremely senile escorts (7)

10: Unfortunate rot in republic is everlasting (13)

13: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)

16: Picks up job applicant documents (7)

17: Conceive of gain (7)

18: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

19: Oblique demand for a new church (7)

20: Melodic rearrangement of asymmetrically split second part (7)

22: Dark, scary thing (5)

24: Venomous enemy lurks in Caspians (3)





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