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Across:
8 Person to praise in the Church of England (6)
9 One in the common market, a pure one perhaps (8)
10 Southern belle, of literary world, clatters about (8)
11 Endlessly ask the advice of a government official (6)
12 Donkey among the burrowers, how sweet! (8)
13 Couple and daughter are given support (6)
14 Gee talker, I'm lost badly! (3,3,5,2,2)
18 Dessert causes drooling when the end is removed (6)
20 Give curly girls the crew cut, despite suffering (8)
23 Price, a pound, of ribs (6)
24 Captivating with a cold ... otherwise smooth Gaul Bros upset (8)
25 A nun once resolved to give notice in public (8)
26 It takes the strain out of brewing (3,3)
DOWN:
1 What's missing in a fight is loss of consciousness (8)
2 How the coypu gets its food with the air up there (6)
3 Fruits, we hear, protect nuts! (6)
4 Impression is getting us to attempt some little heat as a qualification for attending to nippers (9,6)
5 Severe test for copper, back in small bed with large sides (8)
6 It may be mine, space not required for it (4-4)
7 About half your beaten team are no youngsters (6)
15 This will do the work of a washer - O, but nail it (8)
16 Enduring advice on how to get old? (4,4)
17 Like tongue with some beef? (8)
19 Seems as if this is the fruit of the shoe-tree (6)
21 Ash sat all over a California volcano (6)
22 Are characters in colour? Look at them again! (6)
SOLUTION TO YESTERDAY’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across: 8 Blackout, 9 Ibexes, 10 Quite right, 11 Miss, 12 Thalia, 14 Ascorbic, 15 Quickly, 17 Cringed, 20 Aspatria, 22 Thrace, 24 Gold, 25 Pirate flag, 27 Herein, 28 Narrowed.
Down: 1 Plough, 2 Scot, 3 Doornail, 4 Stigmas, 5 Tic-tac, 6 Weimaraner, 7 Perspire, 13 Lock and key, 16 Unspoken, 18 Rotatory, 19 Barring, 21 Roping, 23 Crazed, 26 Flow.