Sunday, October 30, 2022

Puzzle No. 70: Faire Trial

Faire Trial

By teamcrazymatt
No theme this time, just some challenging fill.
(Originally published as MyCrossword #774.)
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Squares filled: 0/164
Exolve Print Notes Jotter

Across
1Busy? Notice sounds of the South (5)
4Assumed sailor will initially commandeer flanks quietly (8)
9Doubting disciple ultimately converted, becoming tolerant (9)
10Intelligence agents returned to meet king having fun in Ireland (5)
11City college article in Spain sides with wise guys backing medical field discovering what's in the pelvis (7,8)
12Haggard, the singer in jail meets with grand old Vatican official (10)
15One not striking Mark strikes backside with book (4)
17It can be found in botanical gardens! (4)
18They're audibly forced in the direction of both sides of zoo in two seconds (10)
20Present officer with 6 buffalo heading for the suicidal Bohemian (15)
23Old vinegar found in East Indies oddly smelly (5)
24Stands out west of moon beginning to rise upwards (9)
25In America, one of five active in tilting target (8)
26Revolutionary noble gas' nucleus replaced with mass to create flame-resistant material (5)

Down
1Loud celebrating, unceasingly playing instrument (6,8)
2Leader of buccaneers shelled deck after raising old ship (5)
3Nurse opens trap on queen having yen to produce instruments of war (8)
4Sweetheart ghastly chump's thrown out on ear left after breakup (9)
5Lemur caught in spindrift (5)
6Scoundrel on a corner is Joker, a crook in the extreme (6)
7United in key need often after seeing bad gift from Santa (9)
8Line splitting angle in crystal because it altered carat reading to 9 (5,9)
13East African city's unorthodox dogma is hard for all to see (9)
14Young lady against hosting cookout served up bird of prey (9)
16Conservative adult writing one line, then another, on The Ringer (8)
19Ace and Glen not stopping playing Dead Island (6)
21Grave admonition about trapping evil spirit (5)
22Saw absent resistance's use of second person (5)

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