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ACROSS

6 What better tool at sea to make one warmer (3-5,6)

9 Strong liquor makes grand vocalist, say (6) 10 Insect, large one not initially seen in rug (8)

11 A quid wasted on most of Irish cocktail (8) 13 City in Nevada regularly wins distinction (6)

15 Pass by middle of sheer descent (6) 17 Anglo-Saxon vice hides good attribute (6) 19 Longs for playing fields without soft surface (6)

20 Coward’s work makes your eyes water (3,5)

22 Crush thick pieces, lacking the suitable tools for it? (3,5)

24 Stress that may show where you come from (6)

26 Gory tales by brothers perhaps? (5,9)

DOWN

1 Mix third of drug with a chemical part of medicine (14)

2 Don’t go on vessels that have capsized (4) 3 Adult was at first jailed in one African nation or another (6)

4 Outside broadcast is answer to covering small eclipses (8)

5 Sort of sweat, yielding a lather (4) 7 Exciting recital with no time for cake (6) 8 Feature of speeches in wedding no less? Sadly, I left (4-10)

12 Cancel game that doesn’t start (5) 14 Innocent local inhabitant forgets time (5) 16 Cross had bent part of old window (4,4) 18 Tool owned by him acquired by church on line (6)

21 Fermenting this, blended with red made yesterday (6)

23 Circle over pond (4)

25 Axe college dance (4)