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ACROSS

1 ‘E mimes iron heart badly to get a hot bath the old-fashioned way (9,6)

9 Madame swirls dust around short Australian and gets waxy (7)

10 Swapping a thousand for a hundred I’m choking on pasta (7)

11 Riverside friend of mole is messy (5)

12 China tute is the real thing (9)

13 Dane pales when stirred at the pub (9)

15 Kiwi trod quietly but audibly through the burial place (5)

16 Tying things in knots went I (5)

18 Hurt Ms Lewinsky with an instrument (9)

20 I tossed bitter cos for a 26-related field (9)

23 If you’re short of dough will help audibly (5)

24 Middle Eastern English PM’s short a quid (7)

25 Mess up this op, visor is a condition (7)

26 Audibly grieving, Mum’s under the weather (7,8)

DOWN

1 Attacking Mister Vine on it, I came up with this style of diplomacy (15)

2 Get it wrong, mes amis, step within (7)

3 Off the shelf, the beer was mixed up, dear and meady (9)

4 The value of a country is rarely measured in diamonds (5)

5 Uttering oath with a lisp, confused, getting ready for bed (9)

6 Cockney tells what Revere did to damage and rust (5)

7 Give approval badly, cattily, unspoken (7)

8 Spooner describes old Japanese car gearbox parts falling from the sky (4,4,3,4)

14 Showing disgust that you harbor gin in this fashion(9)

15 Ticker function, possibly orange (9)

17 Shylock’s profession changes University for batsman at the crease for cover (7)

19 Stocktake inside this item is evil (7)

21 Ancient Egyptian embalming oil stirred. Me, lie? (5)

22 Car, island, pants in a pi arc (5)

Solutions

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