Crossword for Mon, 15/Jan/2018

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Across
2: To initiate into communist units, they carry the vital gas. (3, 5, 5)

8: Throws out the pressman returning to play sport (7)

10: Making a wish; head off (7)

11: Neil Armstrong, first to return from another world? (5)

12: Make a deep impression, bound by ties initially thought to be most vexatious (9)

13: Hang back, keeping right next to person buying a jumper (11)

15: Lifeblood of dope (3)

17: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

18: Difficult book about Baltic currency (11)

20: Hidden in tomb? (9)

23: Doll part, that is (5)

24: Col in unopened 10-across tie (7)

25: One implement for catching tuna damaged the fins (7)

26: Reformed drinker helps a water distributor (9,4)
Down
1: Broadly-inclusive explanation for Hang Loose heard (4-5)

2: Tick off and send back into custody to conceal rip-off (9)

3: Famous pianist's inclination for vocalizing (5)

4: Dance to old home recording (3 4)

5: Orchestra playing for farm animal (4,5)

6: Tours river, merging initial impressions with remembered legends (5)

7: Sense of location, we hear (5)

9: Control escape (3)

14: Observed, yet seen so poorly (3,4,2)

15: This is truncated, or the end's off (9)

16: M.C. with overexcited serpent heads to exit right (9)

19: No hot tamale in this dish (7)

20: Changes orders and loses 100 (5)

21: Seasoning for lark (5)

22: Delay yield (5)

23: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)




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