Across
1 Father had potato messily and without thinking (2,3,4,2,1,3)
9 Trust nobleman of Norway (5,2)
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10 Fine arts: obscure without a little drink (7)
11 ‘A fool will spend time to gain money’: it’s an expression (5)
12 Paradise has madly, endlessly furiously, come before angel’s head (7-2)
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13 Prove herbalists worked without recipe (9)
15 With some constipation, you might eat here (5)
16 Appearing in item, Ceefax host(5)
18 One re-imagining geopolitics without industrialism and petroleum, primarily? (9)
20 From the Home Counties, nearly rancid: the bubbly’s finally missing something (5-4)
23 United in love, besotted, finding need for reproduction (5)
24 Puccini’s sorry about embracing another composer(7)
25 Pour forth, in pub, round — or several rounds (5-2)
26 Rumpled Boston towelling: what’ll keep you dry (10,5)
Down
1 Greek comes before prison officer: ‘How might I get water?’ (10,5)
2 Say, daytripper: visit our isthmus, for a while (7)
3 Unreliable timetable’s omitting time: that’s ... worthy of note (9)
4 Declaims reduction of immigrants by 50% (5)
5 Green Party at first is to include what’s essential to teaching (9)
6 An affair, possibly a Scottish country dance (5)
7 Italian league in history’s half eliminated those to be assassinated (3,4)
8 ‘A Pest of Nazareth’: outrageous story of 1912 (6,2,3,4)
14 Tearing it up is a way of adding stress (9)
15 Intrude in a modern way and get shot with weapon (9)
17 Flounces out, rejecting female’s advice (7)
19 Awaiting delivery of hysterical routine (2,5)
21 With temperature having dropped, resort of Tahiti remains a humid place (5)
22 Expression of gratitude? I don’t like that being forbidden (5)