Times Cryptic #26806

2017-08-17

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Across

1a

Follow on to make certain when down on runs (5)

4a

Novel and difficult crossword you've got here? (4,5)

9a

Awfully fine story never to be told (9)

10a

Get upset, dismissing judge's viewpoint (5)

11a

One seen in seedy city area, topless and with an American (6)

12a

What's useful when flying parasite puts an end to pleasures (8)

14a

Impossible to visit current vandalised science labs (12)

17a

Educate employees in district in the seizure of debtors' goods (12)

20a

Prompt passage crossing to island (8)

21a

After what may be draughts, vacated the cell (6)

23a

Join train in the middle to return (5)

24a

Being silly about one carpet that's beyond livening up (9)

25a

Openly upset about article offering invented material (9)

26a

Referring to very early start, the French bronze has to be returned (5)

Down

1d

Record is old recording son's put out as not playing continuously (8)

2d

Cast mostly delivered almost any playwright (8)

3d

Displaced ancient freshmen no longer being denied a vote (15)

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4d

Tramp having ferret round (4)

5d

Choral rite reworked aiming at maximum vocal effect (10)

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6d

One's left Euston, say, without proposal for the moving of stock? (15)

7d

Silver grabbed by politician that is an obsessive collector (6)

8d

Arab chief needs the man captured by a believer (6)

13d

Like some birds, perch above feline climbing in conifer (10)

15d

One returning home to sound off about flat (8)

16d

Concerned with area in European Article 50 that's delicate (8)

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18d

Take fruit and small cakes, giving the last three away (6)

19d

Corpse's being interred shortly, but court case's not begun (6)

22d

Bowl over duration of test match, it's reported (4)