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Across
- 9. Starlet, essentially new, appearing in moving cameo in a love story (7)
- 10. Lambast/bristle at herbal drinks (7)
- 11. Toast left out to cook quickly (5)
- 12. Pine and beech pronounced in this Californian city (4,5)
- 13. Operating at full tilt being well informed (2,2,5)
- 14. Switching hands, delicate skill (5)
- 15. Comment on show not quite open (7)
- 17. Part of pulpit's coming loose (5,2)
- 19. Useful tips for holiday (5)
- 20. Aim in turn to curb speaker delays (9)
- 22. Frenetically run through new fanzine that’s ultimately sappy (2,1,6)
- 24. Cold? The opposite (5)
- 25. Backing budget that is outwardly very vague (7)
- 26. Erstwhile art to produce marionette (3-4)
Down
- 1. Positive resolution certainly a constraint (8)
- 2. Money is second in a relationship (6)
- 3. Relief day amidst exacting nurse duty (10)
- 4. Knowledgeable people in general will be afraid of starting off (4-4)
- 5. Made a copy of compact disc containing single (6)
- 6. Preserve book-post (4)
- 7. Bird running past a hen (8)
- 8. A right time to overthrow old British monarch (6)
- 14. Writer's thought to topple and stall (4-3,3)
- 16. Price involving Canada made police cruiser (5,3)
- 17. False God — Satyr, an animal out of control (5,3)
- 18. Training to go along by noon in shade (3-5)
- 19. Man providing meat to very young farm animal (6)
- 20. Currency including Knut primarily for Potter? (6)
- 21. Quarrel lieutenant had with relative down under (6)
- 23. Freudian slips periodically bringing harm (4)
