Crossword for Mon, 29/May/2017

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Across
1: Dine out and stop being vague (13)

8: Initially, celebrated Rough Rider's pick is to fish (5)

9: The jerk is one trailing a roll of Bounty (9)

11: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

12: An idea to throw out ring away from home (3,2)

13: Transfixes the finger-tips (5)

14: Prejudice runs wild in a legal system (13)

17: I, for one, adhere to edict (13)

18: Something useful - like a matching collection? (5)

19: Relieves each emergency service (5)

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

23: Don't obstruct slippery eel packer (4,5)

25: Turning up to follow bashful rodent (5)

26: Grave study: code-breaking? (13)
Down
1: Fiber extracted from thistles (5)

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

3: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)

4: Severely criticize cook (5)

5: Massive dinosaur hiding in Antigua? No, Donna! (9)

6: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

7: Sigh in the midst of plain neglect (9)

10: Nearly nail half of veterans for childishness (7)

13: Crazy to clean sons in awful mess (11)

14: Naughty pedestrian sounds Scotch? (9)

15: Sally was ready to embrace East German (7)

16: Revels too bad for former President (9)

20: Father Brown's latest femme fatale (5)

21: Chump getting past in chasm (5)

22: Praises cricket ground in a speech (5)

24: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)




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