Independent Cryptic #1758

2023-11-05

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Across

1a

Not on a slippery surface in one's workplace? (6)

4a

V&A visitor becoming most faint (7)

9a

Bird - stuffed - in cantina mounted (7)

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10a

Change logo that's about tailless mammal (7)

11a

A comic put back: it's available in the bathroom (5)

12a

Discovered deer in trouble as mount went lame (9)

13a

I dose child with rum mixture containing zero salt (14)

16a

Uncontrollable kid? Teen brat joins RN: life changing! (14)

20a

Sentimental English movement has rally regularly (9)

22a

Some reds maybe as tree initially decays (5)

23a

He made arty films and collapsed in one (7)

24a

Boy hero getting good dyeing hair? (7)

25a

Former US film producer giving headless animal to chap (7)

26a

Has feelings - strongly at first - giving a gentle touch (6)

Down

1d

Trump not in form (8)

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2d

Amusing to try: I would like a mushroom (7)

3d

Medical tube (middle omitted) - put in a member as a plant (9)

4d

Truly a live rat I slaughtered? Just an experience via a headset! (14)

5d

Mocked great upstanding newspaper person (5)

6d

Daughter standing by river in finale? (To be continued ...) (7)

7d

Sentimentally pretty daughter initially youthful resembling a hearty outdoor type (6)

8d

Regain consciousness with feelings of anxiety? Lots of liquids will have this effect (14)

14d

Capek's play has one named woman in imaginary location (9)

15d

Chaos taking a very long time to get texts? (8)

17d

Pasta: Italian at last with a load! (7)

18d

This person's so dull I'm bored stupid! (7)

19d

One's id: that's a particular image (6)

21d

A particular turn of phrase: I had - on the Isle of Man (5)