CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Positive shrub pruning timelessly effective in a court (11) 7 A twit returns somewhat detached (5) 8 Boorish gun play everyone attributed to worker (9) 10 Govern chaotically after Massachusetts shows some growth (8) 11 Barbarous bit of mudflat urbanisation rejected (6) 13 Ring after emergency call, all right (2-2) 14 Creating hostility and strangely involving Angela in it (10) 17 Call for attention – last tin inside is shaken with caution (10) 18 Oats cooked in an Athenian porch (4) 20 In some spots Diana gets a bit of salad (6) 22 It’s unreasonable to put about I am butch (1,3,4) 24 Element one artist provided that is a bit saucy (9) 25 Die horribly after medic withdrew liquids (5) 26 Severely criticises frocks trimmed with feathers (7,4)

Down

1 Prospect for song is rewritten (9) 2 Cattle car perhaps for this city (6) 3 Even a quilt out making it just the same (10) 4 Drive through Luxembourg environs (4) 5 I will get indulgence and abuse (3-5) 6 Good, basic craft is seen to work (5) 7 Chrome tap is surprisingly adding to the ambience (11) 9 Stupidly delete enclosed diagram that’s made it clear what will happen (11) 12 Sweets lead to belly being loosely constrained by leisurewear (5,5) 15 One turns off charge as something that is unwelcome (9) 16 Lugs instrument around copse too (8) 19 Empty impresario follows boss in film company (6) 21 Challenged District Attorney to overcome communist (5) 23 Father’s second to die (4)