Times Cryptic #26683

2017-03-27

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Across

1a

Level-headed Spanish gentleman invested with award (5)

4a

Delude fellow losing head in part of Holland (8)

8a

Working at club or shop, one with a fear of confined spaces (14)

10a

Ill-famed old port guarded by other people? (9)

11a

Hooligan rounds on flipping grass! (5)

12a

Launderette, possibly, requiring ready users (4-2)

14a

Worker taking drug fell over in waiting area (8)

17a

Amphetamine reduced? That's a blow (5-3)

18a

Satellite beheaded 1 ac: no turning back (6)

20a

False notions of party line in Iowa (5)

22a

Most unlikely way, once, to save energy at any rate (9)

24a

Working girl after key to cut parts of late PPE course? (5,9)

25a

Fellow largely read aloud with sympathy (8)

26a

Lived in luxury mostly in outskirts of Detroit (5)

Down

1d

Support firm in housing American relative (6,6)

2d

Speak proudly, showing son in pram, perhaps? (5)

3d

Sorting out errors, vie for source of water (9)

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4d

Wader crosses end of lake immediately after this (6)

5d

Resisting what models may be doing after work (8)

6d

Last two characters taken to court in fuddled state? (5)

7d

Boring hue discomfited someone close to us (9)

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9d

Remark taking in male Anglicans for a start (12)

13d

Spontaneous declaration of good timekeeper at university (9)

15d

English doctor in flustered state, losing head in conflict (9)

16d

Decorative twist uncommon originally in low-bred dog with nits (8)

19d

Fancy having silver in change (6)

21d

The whole lot love a Clackmannanshire town (5)

23d

Man maybe consumes last of fruit, getting fibre (5)