Crossword for Thu, 24/Aug/2023

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Across
1: Well-brewed litre of this is a symbol of Irish pride. (7)

5: Raced around a tree (5)

8: Secretly include railroad in family future (13)

10: Flirting could end with marriage (9)

11: Hellish painter spoke piffle (5)

13: Recreating the past, USS Enterprise finally turned up (9)

16: Hovel revamp ending depression (5)

17: Suggest I am a layer. (5)

18: Is it a chop that's nutty or a nut that's chopped? (9)

19: Preliminary form of conscription (5)

21: Ill-conceived encore run for Edward VIII, say (9)

24: National official is here, carrying identification, after challenge overwhelms local center (4-9)

25: Put two together? (Just skinned the fruit.) (5)

26: Loathes key English exams (7)
Down
1: A favourite car of Seattle natives. (11)

2: Shine audio, $40? (5)

3: Burdened young man with couple of encumbrances (5)

4: Vulgar and insipid (9)

5: Go up cedar's first branch (5)

6: Crank up front half of outhouse in Alabama, for example (4-5)

7: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)

9: Any environment for car maintenance (7)

12: Healers swear by the cases of the little river horse. (11)

14: Recorder describes Mr. Quayle: a little crazy person, quick on his feet (3-6)

15: Batman novel is pure horse ... ! (9)

16: Law, say, constraining trade union leaders (7)

20: Beat writer's collaborator briefly drank (5)

22: Odd bits of Niacin and Sprite (5)

23: Skin gash exists (5)

24: Sixpence for big cheese? (1.1.1.)




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