Crossword for Fri, 20/Sep/2019

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Across
1: Next to erector is a witness (9)

6: Defame how I live in 16-across local (5)

9: Traded partners for sprint ~ (5,4)

10: Refuse to obey a French hooligan (5)

11: Workers are in giant red star (7)

12: Song is a gas (3)

13: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

14: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

17: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

20: Cull out from top ten (3)

21: Neither's partner participated in an orchestra (3)

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

23: Is next to a total bust (5)

24: Great conqueror or ragtime bandleader (9)

25: Fittingly, use following heart transplant (5)

26: Got off the coach tired, on Eastern time (9)

Down
2: Saturday: Wild nature walk (7)

3: Decision tree's unusual goal: mirth? (9)

4: Plays without a wee measure of drinks (5)

5: Broadcast share in genuine show trial (9)

6: Youre filming some Return of the Long Term Prisoner (5)

7: Tiresome platitude from dim bore (7)

8: Something good made by dwarf barber, perhaps! (6,7)

9: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

15: Man spread out what sometimes separates father from son? (9)

16: A cinerama restored examples of a country's quirks (9)

18: Hand down entangled net with water damage (7)

19: Book half written by sculptor or composer (7)

21: Yes. No. Maybe. Getting personal (5)

22: Twilight: time for affair (5)





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