Crossword for Fri, 9/Oct/2020

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Across
2: Changed musician not so offensively pious (13)

8: Long Rhine sequence in Wagner's work (9)

9: Love affair for one like Othello, we hear (5)

10: Plate through the nose for lasso (5)

11: Chap securing pad or new sponsor (9)

13: English poet writes about head of Scottish queen (7)

14: Greek city - in the Adriatic or in Thessaly (7)

16: Which creatures are found in factions? (7)

17: 'I'm at the top! I am chairman of Chrysler Corporation of America.' (7)

19: Learning, obsessive student returns to shelf (9)

22: Praises cricket ground in a speech (5)

23: Englishman opening a can to dine at home (3,2)

24: Smuggler participating in arms race? (9)

26: Cat linked stories to the underworld (8-5)

Down
1: New Testament stories about gifts (7)

2: Glasses for ships (9)

3: Crazy to clean sons in awful mess (11)

4: Start reducing salt? (3)

5: Scotsman to notice fundamental singular metaphysical entity (5)

6: Gas makes one put on weight (5)

7: Exercise time inside (7)

11: Article missing from European's sources (5)

12: Sadly curtail urge for land cultivation (11)

14: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)

15: Change in ultimate diet for the evening? (9)

16: Snippet from flick I esteem as more distasteful than any other (7)

18: European country's gold channel (7)

20: Tarka beheads scoundrel (5)

21: Siphon windy painter? (5)

25: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)





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