Across
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Someone helping Everest's reconnoitrers planning ascent, primarily? (6)
9
Arranged toccatas, far from legato (8)
10
Ladies' man returning, embracing initially everyone – ladies' man! (6)
11
With no means of escape from latex, I cry: 'bin pants' (12)
13
Boyfriend to play fiddle noisily (4)
14
Achievement on field that might involve rabbit (3,5)
17
Wanting more, slice of gâteau with extra piping (8)
18
Step gives way in, we're told (4)
20
Films a bird that was in country once (7,5)
23
Pair of kings? You could do better (3-3)
24
Orchestral performance: singer Rita's Brazil-bound? (8)
25
Counterfeit stone that's worn on March 17th? (8)
26
Ovine detailed by Eliot in parts of book (6)
Down
2
Feel aversion to some châteaux (4)
3
Goodness, die cutter in need of repair (9)
4
Jazzman regularly seen with meadow flower (6)
5
What's given to yobs? Spirits, lagers, wine (5,5,5)
6
Old fellow, confounded pest if not on-topic (3-5)
7
A little tribal sacrament in wood (5)
8
Each lecturer scratching head, frantic, seething (10)
12
President of Spain in canyon with scrubland (6,4)
15
Set up spy, hiding a ruble, leading to palaver (9)
16
No-good silver-tongued weaselly type written up in book (8)
19
Everyman going north, hostelries providing stops (6)
21
Met up with scripture that's sacred (5)
22
Frenchman is tense finding water sprayed (4)