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ACROSS
1 Place became cold all around (6)
4 German dogs mainly run and jump (6)
8 Help stop itching to some extent (5,2)
9 Say, king and one ace - not essentially queen of hearts (7)
11 Cut and edit centre page (10)
12 Returning from Yugoslavia too? (4)
13 Article describes origins of rheumatic orofacial pain (5)
14 Spooner's principal gets some sweet treats (8)
16 Laws, say, broken by trade union at the onset of strike (8)
18 Say, like a car, out of gas (5)
20 City is beautiful, and kept unpolluted for starters (4)
21 His beneficiaries are always late? (10)
23 An enclosed space over and alongside houses (7)
24 Bit of wine on the countertop? (7)
25 One fleeing from dreadful regime (6)
26 Tense day in an American company (2,4)
DOWN
1 Draft is correctly read out (5)
2 It goes fast, up and down? (4,3)
3 Order food containing good source of nutrition (9)
5 To see this spot, used a telescope (5)
6 Humanitarian aid nicely covers UP state (7)
7 What a groundskeeper requires is sold around corner (5,4)
10 How to get ideas pitched? (4,5)
13 Tea is served often in private meeting (4-1-4)
15 A time for one perhaps to take a little nap! (9)
17 Setter's opening tactic primarily overturned a disaster (7)
19 Like some nuts, dates, or bananas? (7)
21 Milk supplier from old city has daughters back in Kozhikode (5)
22 In retrospect, greed or envy (vices) destroy slowly (5)
