Across
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A return of pin money after spring vegetable peaks? (9,4)
10
This is a surprise job to look after a kiln (3-4)
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Italian kid, a fifty-something on a Vespa! (7)
12
Soon befitting the husband of a countess? (5)
13
#1 song never a hit, keeping up with a track on a #1 album (9,9)
14
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder (5)
16
Many equate reduced force with current, sadly (5,1,3)
18
Vixen finally going to ground narrowly avoided disaster (4,5)
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House inaccessible in their years in retreat (5)
20
This time for the mind-blowing rallies! (9,9)
23
College beak looking over hopeful’s entry form (5)
24
I’ll give wry renditions no end (7)
25
A bewitching old woman keeps back ingredient (7)
26
Canary with the cuckoo flower (5,8)
Down
3
Strain in always uncoordinated movement (5)
4
Old Mexican upset South Africa P.I. (5)
5
Like supporters, won out of attrition after United lead (9)
6
The enemy marker, we hear, associates with rosemary and war? (9)
7
The shriek of the IT consultant? (5)
8
Summons the cat-o’-twenty-seven-tails? (5-4,4)
9
It relaxes me somehow, the getting back from voyage (4,5,4)
15
Companion that a poker player shouldn’t have in place … (9)
16
… money put down, game up in the air … (9)
21
… more of the same a weaver raised (5)
22
Closes in on prey, after antelope (5)
23
Reported guy seen on canal side? (5)