Crossword for Sat, 4/Feb/2017

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Across
1: Once Tiger beaten, major centres show examples of self-centredness (15)

6: Coal remaining at the end of a month (5)

7: Refuse to reveal how old clothes are (7)

10: Figure it can go to pieces (7)

12: Scheme I enter into direct (5)

13: Ruddy rare steak, say? (7)

15: Part of book covers ballpark legends, using reliable background sources (5)

16: Taste test (5)

18: Grass present round container (7)

21: Is next to a total bust (5)

22: Unknown little princess turning food with tongue (7)

23: Plots get Cuban revolutionary leader in a terrible mess (7)

25: Ear to (almost all) the ground (5)

26: Far around the church, its arms stirred a holiday presence (6,9)
Down
2: Gold tooth, perhaps, in satellite? (7)

3: Crazy, angered, mad, (7)

4: Draw a stomach uprising (3)

5: Roman date and time that is in Latin (2,3)

8: Unprepared, a little gerbil darted the wrong way (2-3)

9: His stable is unstable, it's found (9)

10: Open present yonder (4,5)

11: Gal who's no spring chicken hugs GI -- both go back for a snort (5)

14: Virago would dwell on male chromosome (5)

17: Express joy in slaughter (5)

19: Name successor in speech? (7)

20: Witty remark, for example, about constant batterer (7)

21: Something useful - like a matching collection? (5)

24: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)




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