Times Cryptic #26789

2017-07-28

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Across

1a

Relax in country that's warmer? (10)

7a

Again hiding a prejudice (4)

9a

Reportedly returned, more upset, to find micro-organisms (8)

10a

Meeting captive, I'm impressed! (6)

11a

Sturdy racehorses (6)

13a

Sport covering minimum of distance, track event perhaps? (8)

14a

Hedge in a street that's untidy, one offering to cut it (12)

17a

Inventor some hit, and so disturbed (6,6)

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20a

European channels screening a programme initially rejected (8)

21a

Doctor seeing someone under contract (6)

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22a

Asian nation welcoming territorials from the East (6)

23a

Currently exciting? (8)

25a

Simple building left behind (4)

26a

Damp squib, you might say, encapsulating the ultimate in dreary gossip (4,6)

Down

2d

Sailors pick up relationships (8)

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3d

Head for Brazil, perhaps (3)

4d

Pack put away, we hear (5)

5d

Entering state, hurricane finally hit hard (7)

6d

Sweetenerbecause some in the morning needing energy (9)

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7d

Incomprehensible existence, more uncivilised in confinement (11)

8d

Measure a horse (6)

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12d

Poet penning nothing good, attitude nothing special (3-8)

15d

Law infringement, Shakespearean heroine bent on it (9)

16d

Former leaders of European triumvirate inevitably going into battle (8)

18d

Look at somewhere to live (7)

19d

Sensational story cut, chief of police implicated (6)

21d

Raised strips drop off (5)

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24d

Peak in Puerto Rico (3)

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