Yosemite Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. It’s the call of the male owl, idiot (4)
  2. 7. Posed for a fee: a fruit obtained! (7)
  3. 8. Happy that Colorado and Alabama are connected by the northbound 66 (9)
  4. 9. Country mixes posh sand (5)
  5. 15. Verbal confusion defeated in interpretation (4,2,11)
  6. 16. Braise then carry this beast (5,4)
  7. 17. Burn (and react badly to) letter (9)
  8. 18. Promise to have fun mixing up letters (8)
  9. 19. Motherly mother lasts forever after taking pill (8)
  10. 21. The price you pay (but not all of it) has value in this plac (8)e
  11. 24. Modern study gave this cop spasms (8)
  12. 26. Long shape will eventually become a tree (4,4)
Down
  1. 1. Toilet article swirls a bit, “pst” he saw this coming (4,3,7)
  2. 2. Church service provider started singing a note that was heard during the photo session (6)
  3. 3. Cocktail by yours truly, with half a fruit (4)
  4. 4. Synthetic high made me oddly air-headed (4)
  5. 6. naware , ship followed northeast into this state (15)
  6. 10. Matriarch and I have time and energy for this hard matter (7)
  7. 11. Film with a soulless traitor in the mix (6)
  8. 12. Humourless flyer without any substance (4,6)
  9. 13. In war, foreign office retreats after Sussex town gets Jamaican things (6,2,8)
  10. 14. A stone rub coin — with spare edges removed erroneously —reveals several towns merging (11)
  11. 20. Director loses right to dairy producer (6)
  12. 22. In Abingdon, war dragged along (6)
  13. 23. In the settlement where you’re from (8)
  14. 25. The prophet heard of this cooking technique (4)