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Independent 8129

Solution grid

ACROSS

8              One cleans up male lacking in attraction (4)

9              Unusually animated about a new firm (10)

10           Ethical figure’s witty comment encapsulating dreadful liars (8)

11           Cook or ruin fish in setback (6)

12           Function in which you’ll encounter Hebrew and Greek?  (6)

14           Left-winger encountering riddle about hard evidence of recession?  (3,5)

15           Rock song locale? A fictional hole, perverted, is about right (5,10)

18           Congregation around here reinterpreted property ownership (8)

21           Frenchwoman incompletely checked by Yard (6)

22           Add more to sheep-dog? (4,2)

23           Sticks with method when hosting a travelling event (8)

25           Bar maid to make return to action? (10)

26           High ball’s caught with it (4)

DOWN

1              Surprised expression about quantity of booze in train (4-4)

2              Bearing up after a selection of opera (4)

3              Guy, one that’s mostly postponed dealing with charged material (8)

4              Religious message completed in speech (notice vestments) (8,7)

5              Very clear what’ll contribute to police detective branch? (6)

6              Farm animal runs in standard footwear (10)

7              Like many switches, restricting energy in a unique way (3-3)

13           Sounding alarm, perhaps, about expression of fear in worker management? (10)

16           Cunning tabloid pests will be caught by it (8)

17           Insert name in it? Computer memory takes it (8)

19           Elevated series televised after receiving a justification (6)

20           Bird, duck, lively around rear of lake (6)

24           About to leave arcane religious group (4)

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