Times Cryptic #28213

2022-02-14

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Across

1a

Spot right idiot in wrinkly fabric (10)

6a

Old people's home had no room, finally (4)

9a

One with a suit: a male with more awful clothing (7)

10a

Overly serious, following whizz in school (2-5)

12a

Don still sleeping around (3,2)

13a

Clashes with crook getting 100 in darts (9)

14a

Wind, say, from a green beer, newly brewed (9,6)

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17a

How one may get remit, perhaps, to regress (3,4,3,5)

20a

Lie heavily on stone, at first? This is breaking now (4,5)

21a

European footballer's caught plague (5)

23a

Stink about to permeate shoe (7)

24a

New leader leaves artillery where order is put up (7)

25a

I won't keep mum's provisions (4)

26a

Defence playing worst during time off (10)

Down

1d

One who's quick to obtain drink, holding head (7,2)

2d

First person set up police force, getting local six-footer (5)

3d

Doctor loudly rebuked how supermarket food may be (6-7)

4d

Horse with hardened skin on part of ear (7)

5d

Bill could be one in river astride swans (7)

7d

Goods to transport? Pack vehicle and then drive (4,5)

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8d

'60s youths adopting upper-class manner (5)

11d

Where records go in affair involving current ministers (6,7)

15d

Distressed annalist penning nothing in papers (9)

16d

Rabbit gently, at intervals, parting pair of bovines (6-3)

18d

Maybe one proposing name aboard boat? I don't know (7)

19d

Remark praising short stockings on Tolstoy heroine (7)

20d

Partners hugging country girl who's sometimes lazy (5)

22d

Deal with English, entering fight without heart (3,2)