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Puzzle No 1078 Clues across

5. Part of a joint, one rolled in empty tin (5) 6. Front man here about to be taken over (9) 9. Detailed plan to get a mod involved in hip-hop performance (4,3) 10. Related when changed (7) 11. Act on goal setting using a number of sides (9) 12. Dress elm up in disguise (5) 13. Demolish dock rebuilt in familiar surroundings (5,4) 19. Chose old people to elect democratic leaders (5) 20. Bar thinly disguised as a maze (9) 22. These seats can be burdens (7) 24. One is getting into the unemployment benefit to worship someone else (7) 25. Be quick to dress well (4,5) 26. Piece of music by a strictly hook-line-and-sinker fisher? (5)

Clues down

1. Hurrying, ain’t she silly? (2,5) 2. I die, gunman runs off beyond what was thought possible (10) 3. With complications having been docked? (8) 4. Plot turns on time payment not made (4) 5. Motorsport loses most, displaying slowness (6) 6. Drop by father at home (3,2) 7. The flan has risen, so decorate it (4,2) 8. Right part of cow is good for a steer (6) 12. Pot, now ripe, stuffed in a socket (5,5) 14. Enormous mountain pass nothing to girl climbing (8) 15. The usual kind of fuel for a fogey? (6) 16. Macho man I love in the movie business (6) 17. Old worker eats nice stew (7) 18. Menace the Mad Hatter (6) 21. Broken limb beginning to perturb a pompous old buffer (5) 23. Keep for the end (4)