The Sunday Crossword No 3046, Sunday 05 May 2019

Much better today. Another change in setter?

ACROSS
1   Become agitated and doubtful hearing tall tale (3,3,2,1,6) GET ALL IN A LATHER*
9   Aintree's frisky one needs to practice (7) TRAINEE*
10 Dust on a relaid floor (7) ASTOUND*
11 Within earshot, hides advances (5) NEARS [T]
12 Mock speaker's error? The jerk! (9) SYNTHETIC (~sin){SYN}{THE}{TIC}
13 Piled it on, flamboyantly vociferated without uncertainty (9) OVERACTED VOCifERATED*
15 HMRC inspection valued 'gift' with regular losses (5) AUDIT {vAlUeD+gIfT}
16 Exotic route off the beaten track (5) OUTRE*
18 Fellow with effigies going around? (3,6) GUY FAWKES {GUY}{FA{W}KES} &lit
20 Battle cry: 'Finally, We Stand Justified' (9) WARRANTED {WAR}{RANT}{wE}{s..nD}
23 Saunters endlessly to find ugly dwarf (5) TROLL sTROLLs
24 Anxiety? One isn't flustered (7) TENSION*
25 A maiden bursts into 'Nancy's Farewell' (1,6) A DEMAIN {A}{MAIDEN}*
26 Socialist pallid and glum seeing display of patriotism (3,5,3,4) RED WHITE AND BLUE {RED}{WHITE}{AND}{BLUE}

DOWN
1   Find trouble, as you do, in a jacuzzi (3,4,3,5) GET INTO HOT WATER [DD]
2   Earl Grey, say, caught stripped naked, revealing a bun (3,4) TEA CAKE {TEA}{C}{nAKEd}

3   Painting captures promontory (9) LANDSCAPE {LANDS}{CAPE}
4   Fancies being in Mid-East (5) IDEAS [T]
5   Something to plan for in any diary, a break (1,5,3) A RAINY DAY*
6   A long letter (5) AITCH {A}ITCH}
7   Worried relative's energy caught in high definition (7) HAUNTED {AUNT}{E} in {HD}
8   Quiet countries EEC led astray (6,2,7) REDUCE TO SILENCE*
14 Drunk to make garment 'intimate' (5-4) TIGHT-KNIT {TIGHT}{KNIT}
15 African people's leaders overcoming hatred, one twisted regime (9) APARTHEID {Af...n}{Pe...e}{HATRED+1}* Semi&lit
17 Firm keeping personnel in position of power (7) THRONED {T{HR}ONED}
19 Pedantic king immediately oversees everything (4-3) KNOW ALL {K}{NOW}{ALL}
21 Essentially Anabaptist: moral, insular, seclusionist herd? (5) AMISH Acrostic Semi&lit
22 Rada cast without lead in Macbeth (it's a play) (5) DRAMA {DRA{Ma...h}A*}

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