Crossword for Sat, 20/Jan/2024

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Across
1: A long way to go for a monomaniacal musician (5)

4: Slows down before a drive in a fast lane (4,5)

8: Imagine spouse, upset, keeping quiet (7)

9: Drunk Kennedy concealing skin condition (7)

10: Enticements disrupt mental rules (11)

11: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

12: Ball-horses are travellers! (5-8)

15: Holder of strange ritual of troll (5,8)

20: Sister gets nothing, we hear (3)

21: Upset top duo; I went and confessed (5,2,2,2)

23: Smash top off strange fruit with speed (7)

24: List of members includes old chick's Dad (7)

25: Over 24 hours, Parisian street may feel remorse (3,3,3)

26: Assistants' crackpot ideas (5)
Down
1: Horse fly's, um, retreating (7)

2: Jacket flap with label's centerpiece inverted? (5)

3: Company strongly recommend: after first scolding, apply the whip! (7)

4: Doctor East, half American, is a wishful thinker (7)

5: Small crewmen back rockets (5)

6: Broadcast share in genuine show trial (9)

7: Sells rides on a bicycle, from the sound of it (7)

9: The ultimate in tepee doctrine (5)

13: Disgusting attack (9)

14: MP insiders use NATO referendum (7)

16: Farm branches, in part (5)

17: A methodical soldier? (7)

18: Leaders of trendy American politicians, in old collars, apply starch (7)

19: Workers are in giant red star (7)

21: Ordered hoop to conserve mass and energy (5)

22: Native American involved in drug problem exposed (5)




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