Times Cryptic #26613

2017-01-04

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Across

1a

Talent of endless variety flourished in town (10)

6a

Echoing cries of surprise get lost (4)

10a

Plaintive cry from horse in Bordeaux? (5)

11a

Criminal left another listening in (9)

12a

Aussie with a beer can clumsily dressing (9,5)

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14a

Inclination to seize back throne that's rather chilling (7)

15a

Dash and swing round, hurt (7)

17a

Composite little journal priest reviewed (7)

19a

Confusion as base guards left gate unoccupied (7)

20a

For tasty snack, pluck outermost bananas (4,6,4)

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23a

Army medic right about surgeon's instruments (9)

24a

Anatomical features oddly displayed by a ptarmigan (5)

25a

Might one crawl here, in hat with nothing on? (4)

26a

Weapon of antiquity put on battlefield (10)

Down

1d

Device to improve smoker's habit (4)

2d

Author exhibits rising weight, tucking into beer and fruit (5,4)

3d

Comparatively little work from big guns in The Times (3,5,6)

4d

See artist sacking top worker as courageous (7)

5d

Comes and goes in high spirits (5,2)

7d

Lines from 60s musical briefly lifted nation (5)

8d

Not lying flat (2,3,5)

9d

Securing dodgy loans for each car, you'll get what's left (8,6)

13d

Verbal resolution after brawl for recyclable items (5,5)

16d

Right to block report of prisoner's reform agreed (9)

18d

Argon inhaled by excavator, one going in deep (7)

19d

Priest featured in papers with a lady (7)

21d

Press triumph over Democrat (5)

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22d

Announcer's put on alert (4)