Times Cryptic #26714

2017-05-02

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Across

1a

Queen is aboard newer boat at sea or on river? (10)

7a

Britain has rejected private sort of prison (4)

9a

Good following girls on Twitter (8)

10a

Digger reversing into Isleworth (6)

11a

Chopped nuts next to a new drinks dispenser (6)

13a

Agency worker, former model (8)

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14a

Happy just for men to carry a single black case (9,3)

17a

Where religious person is sheltering knight? That is awkward (12)

20a

Bird and dog, a small animal (8)

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21a

I travel through place: gorge (3,3)

22a

Topping with cake rejected by North African (6)

23a

Reading matter a writer put on page ten in Le Monde (8)

25a

Brand new home overshadowed by mountain (4)

26a

Making public cuts, as it were, is burdensome (10)

Down

2d

Friendly email sent about place for advice (8)

3d

Periods oddly unavailable for religious festival (3)

4d

With starter portions of breakfast, have toast (5)

5d

PC's sardonic-sounding expression, largely (5-2)

6d

Employed by European firm, this person's highly rated (9)

7d

Illegally disposing of footwear and short trousers (11)

8d

Imagine current discussion without involvement of Brexiteers' leader (6)

12d

Crazy outfit seen on celebrity singer (11)

15d

Eats duck, rejecting initial portion: it's not cooked (5,4)

16d

Tex-Mex, say, after cool drink (8)

18d

Geordie wives greeting 70s-style music (3,4)

19d

No end of confusion over island's burial sites (6)

21d

Singer's held up gratuitysmallest amount possible? (5)

24d

Sounds like score's nil (3)