Times Cryptic #27070

2018-06-21

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Across

1a

Rare aversion concerning woman with dog (10)

6a

Jewel a girl finally displayed after work (4)

10a

People with no following invited into old man's dance (5)

11a

Constant inclination to take in son's washing (9)

12a

Outstanding hospital department engaging mean manager (14)

14a

Old poem about Greek character backing Arab territory (7)

15a

Piece of furniture employed in one theatre or another? (7)

17a

Like a simple song, perhaps, developing mostly nice mood (7)

19a

Crooner once accepting bad position in publicity (7)

20a

Aerial display soldiers and sailors ultimately recall in dark periods (8,6)

23a

Miser's second family to west of North Wales town (9)

24a

Brawny wartime fighting force unknown outside European capital (5)

25a

Cross, and discourteous to listeners (4)

26a

City man in underworld row accommodating in case (10)

Down

1d

Absorbedand made into a parcel, it's said (4)

2d

Cut up over airport concealing current contamination (9)

3d

Unsocial work period solemn detectives change (9,5)

4d

Turn up, dropping round primarily for church records (7)

5d

Rose to a high point, like some tits (7)

7d

Composure one's discovered in American writer (5)

8d

Less demanding time for conveyance of cargo (10)

9d

Obscure military group reportedly qualified to arrest knight (14)

13d

Preacher abused Morse, upset about wrongdoing (10)

16d

Most bad-tempered Italian brought up in county street (9)

18d

Like some pastiesand grain, give or take (7)

19d

Support British pensioner abandoned by daughter (7)

21d

Thick-skinned type playing horn around India (5)

22d

Half of capital Yankee invested in French city (4)