Genius crossword 385
EL SERENO
No tricks here - just 6 clues that share an absent definition. There are a couple of other normal clues that vaguely reference this definition.
Across 1 Capital amount returned
before answer in court (6) 4 When army rest, having lost
all protection (6) 8 Divorce one’s love and other people will be rejected (7) 9 Fabulous swimmer millions
admire after a fashion (7) 11 Key excuse for performance
art (10) 12 Oddly cold moon, one of
nine (4) 13 Dross incorporating new
words commonly used (5) 14 Beginning to doubt, and upsetting noisy American (8) 16 Attitude struck in front of
international academic (8) 18 Message team regularly
and suffer (5) 20 Enthusiasm mostly found
around university (4) 21 Tough criminal behind
tart (4-6) 23 Put off harbouring case of
extremism (7) 24 Large flier must eat a
couple of thousand (7) 25 What the exchequer collects after hearing of wrong rules (6) 26 City model does Salvation
Army (6) Down 1 Considers applications supporting Microsoft initially (5) 2 Leader’s wife admitted to
consult a naturopath (7) 3 Insurance may not cover these going initially into new cat foods (4,2,3) 5 Lament the Spanish say
before day’s end (5) 6 Copying two identical notes
on blubber (7) 7 Religious humour with universal appeal, outwardly (9) 10 Capital types or solitary
chaps across river (9) 13 Instruction for someone with a habit such as coke might be? (9) 15 Too enthusiastic about
finding love in poet (9) 17 Religious festival north of
the Orient (7) 19 9 regularly found in
university faculty (7) 21 Animal that’s holy without
and venal within? (5) 22 Index tracker sheltering
surplus (5)
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