Independent Cryptic #11250

2022-11-02

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Across

7a

Afraid no air's circulating in home (8)

9a

Old relative's ignoring large cats (6)

10a

Letters picked up with a permit (4)

11a

Area covered by remarkably energetic family member (5-5)

12a

Fellow traveller on vacation in front of a sacred text (6)

14a

Orders Dutch artist to pursue damages (8)

15a

Where a piglet may be taken to get warm (6)

16a

Aristotle finally caught in this moral framework (6)

19a

Ceremonial guard releasing female bird (3,5)

21a

Bottom two numbers (6)

23a

Muse about Italian following mother country (10)

24a

Blunt end of skewer stuck into piece of meat (4)

25a

Divorce wife ultimately finds difficult (6)

26a

Drifting, veteran explorer's beginning to weaken (8)

Down

1d

Chicken, perhaps rearing a layer (6)

2d

Tennis champion almost gets nothing (4)

3d

Paignton turned out to be pathetic (8)

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4d

Go off fish served up for cook (6)

5d

Stunt with tattered shirt, one that Jesus may oppose? (10)

6d

Strongman - he's smuggling riches from the south (8)

8d

Read about Moriarty, void of imagination (6)

13d

Has a go at drinking a beer, developed as a source of wintergreen (10)

15d

Young man brewing green tea (8)

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17d

Time left for supporting cast to discover Arthurian site (8)

18d

Good-for-nothing fruit farm (6)

20d

Eastender's hat refurbishment takes time, on reflection (6)

22d

I'm not sure a sailor lies about mistakes (6)

24d

Wine in Bordeaux, it's OK (4)