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Across:
1 Just the place for shipboard concerts? (9,4)
8 If it's so disturbed, give your pet a pick-me-up (9)
9 Wasn't happy about cheap transport ? (5)
11 A Kipling character starts bowling with elbows out (6)
12 Two adjacent pieces in a gradual sequence (3,2,3)
14 Labour sees to one on left (4)
15 Fed Luigi, but this made him far from attractive! (8)
17 Gasp for breath finding man on temple (8)
18 House feature or wild oats ? (4)
20 Seasonal transport animal (8)
21 Eight-legged rest for a billiards player (6)
23 To many the three wise men are incredible (5)
25 Nuclear threat not encouraging one to pay the landlord ? (9)
26 Top people take courses in draughtsmanship? (6,7)
DOWN:
1 Piggy comes from gym class and gets a couple of hundred a year back (7)
2 Giant discount is thus negotiable when going a good deal further than competitors (13)
3 In haste, the French bid's fixed (11)
4 The start of anthem is thus relatively around you (4)
5 Pictures of topless things and other things on top (8)
6 One with a growing potential, the Kaiser concluded (3)
7 Not dead but gnarled and knotted (7)
10 Location of some low bar loud speaking? (6,7)
13 A hill town where speed of progress is restricted (5-2,4)
16 Attitude I assume as god (8)
17 Way of selling established in ancient times (7)
19 Spirits priests may conjure up (7)
22 To the commander it indicates the ear, for a change (4)
24 Pass as an artist not in the pink (3)
SOLUTION TO YESTERDAY’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across: 1 Amateur stage, 8 Endures, 9 Overlap, 11 Dunnage, 12 See here, 13 Heeds, 14 Nominates, 16 Small arms, 19 Hyena, 21 Gold nib, 23 Orbital, 24 Swarthy, 25 Enticer, 26 Alec guinness.
Down: 1 Andante, 2 Aerials, 3 Easterner, 4 Riots, 5 Therein, 6 Gilbert, 7 Read the signs, 10 Press gallery, 15 Misgovern, 17 All hail, 18 Lunatic, 19 Habitue, 20 Entices, 22 Bayou.