Crossword for Mon, 27/Jan/2014

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Across
1: Approaching related band, apparently (7)

4: Rider in Confederacy's last two campaigns, primarily by inclination (7)

8: Someone else embraced by Deianeira, not Heracles (7)

10: Get rid of the circle and end the telephone call (4,3)

11: Church council regulation sounds like a big gun (5)

12: Secret Service obtaining fast food for surveillance jobs (9)

13: One may be transported by this kiss, it's said (3)

15: Charge one piece of mandarin fruit (7)

17: New Testament stories about gifts (7)

18: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)

19: Conspired to be captivated. (9)

21: Detailed map I sent off (5)

23: Reports of incursions from Thailand lead to angry outbursts (7)

24: When a variable is replaced by one number, the highest figure becomes the lowest (7)

25: Surrounded by grass, loose and laid-back (7)

26: Some freezing? (7)
Down
1: Heard about ark's leader taking census; just worthless (2-7)

2: A grain or a nut (5)

3: Article missing from European's sources (5)

4: Press has no right to chase after head nun in purity measure, being a flower (9)

5: Working on mental topic? (13)

6: In love with copper? Gone to give a needle? (9)

7: Very loud intrusion spoiled its cross words (5)

9: Swings needing repair by unknown stock gauge (4,4,5)

13: Reciprocal statement admitting a bit of trickery with baseball stat (9)

14: Hidden? Did I guess wrong? (9)

16: Dickensian Iron Age? (4,5)

19: . . . before the last apprentice is put in the ground (5)

20: Weir contacting Hollywood star (5)

22: Monsieur is immersed in unspecified French river (5)




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