Times Cryptic #26625

2017-01-18

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Across

1a

Man working to safeguard prominent lady? (8)

6a

Maybe a BA with first in English, top mark (1,5)

9a

Rarely seen wearing casual clothes at university and work (2,5,6)

10a

Band's second drug-induced experience, taking ecstasy (6)

11a

Fellow having soldiers surrounded in old battle site (8)

13a

Clever pupil shows this book just when meeting the head (10)

15a

Noise made by cat chasing small duck (4)

16a

Quiet ayatollah gutted former Middle Eastern ruler (4)

18a

Crises one's resolved in economically-challenging periods (10)

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21a

Performing in cabaret without energy, one has the hump repeatedly (8)

22a

Blokeish male into culture (6)

23a

State school in a rut, transformed by head of academy (5,8)

25a

Legion turned back helpless dairymaid (6)

26a

They learn there's lots of water in river (8)

Down

2d

Jack is hard on confounded Tories (7)

3d

Celebrate with trainer, say, briefly recruited by former Wimbledon winner? (7,4)

4d

Right smooth wine from this area? (5)

5d

Somebody incompetent (7)

6d

A number of pints one's brought in for people getting tanked? (9)

7d

Style of pop music a hit (3)

8d

Poet describes the old lady of society (7)

12d

Where to arrive from foreign terminus, crossing Iran's borders (11)

14d

Polluted lake is kept free of last of oil (9)

17d

Gossip picked up in this place, for example (7)

19d

Maybe phone business over new form of diplomacy (7)

20d

One's cracked shell (7)

22d

Houses back-to-back at top of a row (3-2)

24d

One has no time for academic environment (3)