No 12758, Friday 18 Oct 2019, Avtaar

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Across

1 Shell shocked Yankee's debut game (6)
4 Moulding a rock star (female) (8)
9 Maids following with dogs (6)
10 Girl from Kozhikode married an amateur boxer (8)
11 Judge breaking Carol's lock leads to tension (8,6)
13 England snaps in the middle...legislative body invites courts...mainly to get relief (4,6)
14 One's essentially following...ending in servile class (4)
16 Cry of injured wolf when tail is cut by hunter, basically (4)
18 Poem "Princess is pregnant with a pretty girl" (7,3)
21 Man out travelling to India with East European group for trekking at high altitudes (14)
23 Rooney, for one, stayed, making a comeback after forward Ole Solskjaer's finally brought back (3,5)
24 Put money on trendy underwear (6)
25 Student spread gossip about girl's ultimate make-up (3,5)
26 Rule about visiting America's North East (6)

Down

1 Chopped cashew nut kernels (4)
2 Where you may find small kids playing checkers after leaving the gate of kindergarten (7)
3 Shows how extraordinary sex gets ordinary (8)
5 Military staff? (7,4)
6 Property seized by arboreal types (6)
7 Gilchrist's sixes in the beginning together with Warne's spin — they could chew their target (7)
8 That is, say, withdrawn after the French papers attacked violently (4,5)
12 Forces heard in Auckland, Brussels, Copenhagen, Dhaka, Hanoi, Islamabad, Jakarta, Kiev, London and Rome, say (11)
13 E.H. Palmer (explorer, chiefly) — got murdered — was he this? (9)
15 They hold devices, ultimately for entering houses and closing of rooms (3,5)
17 Finished under stress (5,2)
19 Did learn about the New Testament's beacon (7)
20 An intern catches you following closely (2,4)
22 Growth around the edges of eyesockets (4)