Genius crossword 416

Across

1 & 4 Food? - providing it for defence possibly … (6,6) 4 See 1 8 & 13... and, accepting I understand deliveries will be tasty morsels (7,5) 9 Sailors must be surrounded by those angry insects (7) 11 Piece rate adjusted by day will give decrease in value (10) 12 Hit one hundred thousand (4) 13 See 8 14 Immediately and with fatal consequences holding court (8) 16 A supporter employing nurse for delegate (8) 18 Attitude adopted by jet-set hostesses (5) 20 Became aware of misery surrounding king (4) 21 Need review into writer’s bad spelling (5,5) 23 Struggle to accept northern term for old (7) 24 Explicit mostly about old church organ part (7) 25 Tries tucking in top of trouser suit (6) 26 A second hearing should release one of the stars (6)

Down

1 Stick around love boat (5) 2 A breather from riots breaking out in the Netherlands (7) 3 Worried, seeing driver’s head underneath train (9) 5 Australia working with energy and gas (5) 6 Fundamentalist may be cooler - and a jerk! (7) 7 Snares fish caught in new nets (9) 10 Burden on reserve’s attachment to bike (9) 13 A bit loth to change on hot rocky outcrop (9) 15 Impressive thing put up to protect rise of iron bonds (4,5) 17 Complex vote in Rwanda without magic stick (7) 19 Girl from hospital featuring in Sun, perhaps? (7) 21 Clever - avoiding right stretch of coastline (5) 22 Perfect cards handed out by one (5)

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