Across
6a
Flag-carrying soldier resolved to clear surgeon (6,8)
See 4
10a
Illicit affairs of spymaster running major industry (6,8)
See 9
Rant and rave, as sacked gardener might? (4,3,4)
Grim time that husband's taken into consideration (7)
Four breaking oath joined up (7)
Fresh source of water first for annual purification? (6,5)
23a
Preposterous list often added to with conviction? (8,6)
See 22
25a
Long-haul workers from Manchester somehow getting the last word (8,6)
See 24
Down
Bright rising copper's temporarily given housing (6)
Local runner joining army unit is no monarchist (10)
A good outcome to queen's labour? Brilliant! (8)
Struggle across line to finish (8)
Outsider is dying, feverish (4,4)
Plotters regularly use such weapons (4)
Only the odd contrary characters suss out pitch (4)
Name adopted by setter in a novel proves amusing (10)
Naturalist may study this 22 23 at end of a sentence (4,4)
Checked what monarch did, abandoning grand home (6,2)
Greenery, at first a modest innovation in late Georgian streets (8)
Pronounced 'basic', as ship will be before sailing (6)
Riff-raff making unpleasant film (4)
Storyteller's rung up (4)
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