No 11413, Friday 05 Jun 2015, Lightning

ACROSS
8   Lawyer’s influence is used to appoint a representative (5,2,8) POWER OF ATTORNEY {POWER} {OF} {ATTORNEY}
9   Substantial medium for one expert (8) SIZEABLE {SIZE}{ABLE}
10 Key perhaps to allow pill (6) TABLET {TAB}{LET}
11 Betrayal by guru takes king close to misery (9) TREACHERY {T{R}EACHER}{m...rY}
12 Superior bridge primarily breaking a software crawler (5) ABBOT {A}{B{Br...e}OT}
15 Talk of power scare (7) PRATTLE {P}{RATTLE}
17 Burden of sapper in war (7) FREIGHT {F{RE}IGHT}
19 Tesla wearing dirty headgear (5) MITRE {MI{T}RE}

20 Order a grade one beverage (9) ORANGEADE*
23 Internal standoff ends insult (6) OFFEND [T]
25 Born ordinary, superhero with a bit of instigation becomes unconventional (8) BOHEMIAN {B}{O}{HE-M{In...n}AN}
26 Extremely sensitive tobacco ruling out? Not quite there (5,3,2,5) CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR {Se...vE+TOBACCO+RULING}*

DOWN
1   One making a replica of firm pillar (6) COPIER {CO}{PIER}
2   Defender’s force bent a cross (10) BENEFACTOR*
3   Attractive woman blows up inferno (9) BOMBSHELL {BOMBS}{HELL}
4   Wine brought into existence by one artist (7) MADEIRA {MADE}{1}{RA}
5   Leaderless land, say (5) STATE eSTATE
6   Cheat caught by kid (4) CRIB {C}{RIB} 
7   Giant insect after insect outside hospital (8) BEHEMOTH {BE{H}E}{MOTH}
13 Bishop travels miles to help one who always falls short (10) BRIDESMAID {B}{RIDES}{M}{AID}
14 Club trustee left out of afternoon party (9) TRUNCHEON TR{lUNCHEON}
16 Rule, say to diminish precipitation (8) RAINFALL (~reign){RAIN}{FALL}
18 Testimonial, I butter up (7) TRIBUTE*
21 Plays from Madras broadcast (6) DRAMAS*
22 Even exchange of home building material (5) ADOBE {A(-b+d)DO(-d+b)BE}
24 Missing the first contract? Relax (4) EASE lEASE

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