Crossword for Thu, 23/Jan/2020

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Across
1: Stranger is using and supplying (7)

4: Behind and down and out (3)

6: Solo, the pilot rises? No way (3)

8: Take Chair in university (3)

10: A state, see - one in America - one with an American capital (9)

11: Give in to clumsy one swallowing vegetables (7)

12: Prohibit use of milliner's material for automobile part (3,4)

13: After first of December, fisherman is lurer (7)

14: Feminine articles put in case (7)

15: Cancelled requirement to carry gun (7)

17: Boys terse brief for pearl producers (7)

19: Contrarily leave closet for result (7)

21: Take peach heart to make sweet tart (7)

22: Curse the mother country? (9)

23: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

24: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

25: Is Pat suitable? (3)

26: Douglas, initially tough, is knocked out (7)

Down
2: Attack raise with no return (3,4)

3: God, assuming olden right, creates yellow weed (9)

4: Part of book covers ballpark legends, using reliable background sources (5)

5: Get the wrong idea, damn it, distressed about breaks (13)

6: Closest home receives attention (7)

7: The man with lack of skill shows cruelty (13)

8: On your feet! (8,5)

9: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

14: This is truncated, or the end's off (9)

16: One watching over entrance returns identifying label (7)

18: It's exciting, for example, holding a tongue (7)

20: Bizarre exits are... (5)





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