Crossword for Mon, 13/Jan/2020

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Across
1: Clannish discourtesy cut short a Radical (7)

6: Skinny green creature (5)

9: Satanic personification in 'Anthem A-Gogo' (5)

10: A notable Jay Leno feature, 'Sensible Dishes' (9)

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

12: Regularly visit the husband of a relative (5)

14: Spread of disease nearly borne by horse (9)

16: Mishaps or odd sayings (9)

19: Going back in where GI trapped predator (5)

20: Arranged date in Cairo means extermination (11)

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

24: Five Gaelic poems (5)

25: De Bergerac hugged bird on return (5)

26: Between two girls, left in a quandary (7)

Down
2: Flying bugs share desert flora (9)

3: Slender flame's emanation (5)

4: Recover via fantastic miracle (7)

5: Clip of Southern Conservative is very revealing at first (7)

6: Rent dinner suit at drapers? Not Des! (4,5)

7: I'm to get older in picture (5)

8: Canadian water ordered for regal tea-break (5,4,4)

9: Chewed-up gum in tater -- how toothsome (5-8)

13: Revealing depravity, Dick the highwayman does not finish playing duet (9)

15: A bleater going kooky within ticker test (9)

17: Observe - we are hearing Snout's presentation for the main defence (3,4)

18: It's over, over, over, kept apart by past payment (7)

21: Nearly everyone can work on the course without help (5)

22: Five in Christmas story (5)





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