The Sunday Crossword No 3089, Sunday 01 Mar 2020

ACROSS
1   Liberal excluded from US only today, outrageous, really! (3,4,3) YOU DONT SAY {US+ONlY+TODAY}*
6   Luminary Morris finally introducing art nouveau? (4) STAR {m...iS}{ART*}
9   Amorous, old, perverted and smelly (10) MALODOROUS*
10 Rod's pale before date (4) WAND {WAN}{D}
12 Having three refusals from Merkel, called phone number (4-4-4) NINE-NINE-NINE (~nein-nein-nein)
15 Politicians Dimbleby’s confused by disappearing (3,4) LIB DEMS DIMBLEbyS*
16 ‘Let’s go, prepared, ahead of time?’ ‘Stop interfering!’ (3,4) GET LOST [LETS+GO}*{T}
17 Man leaving big city for smaller city (7) CHESTER manCHESTER
19 Revamped attire's more attractive (7) TASTIER*
20 Suspicious alarm tingles vaguely (8,1,3) SMELLING A RAT*
23 Some dilemmas in 1815 novel (4) EMMA [T]
24 Neither con breaking loose (10) INCOHERENT*
25 Criticises as 'plainish' every now and then (4) PANS  PlAiNiSh
26 Following fashion, vacuous lightweight to fall for small diversion (5,5) MODEL TRAIN {MODE}{Li...hT}{RAIN}

DOWN
1   For starters, your aunt might steam veggies (4) YAMS Acrostic
2   Heartlessly using lady is offensive (4) UGLY {UsinG}{LadY}
3   Dispatched Devil to Wales? A superstition (3,5,4) OLD WIVES TALE*
4   They’re often presented at Christmas, films that few enjoy (7) TURKEYS [DD]
5   Australian given to reflection? Laughable (7) AMUSING {A}{MUSING}
7   Smoke rising in unopened kind of bomb: funny … and serious (10) TRAGICOMIC {a{CIGAR<=}TOMIC}
8   Who's in the doghouse? Bloody Everyman and colleagues (3,7) RED SETTERS {RED}{SETTERS}

11 Books where reproductive organ is seen in amphibian, exotic creature (3,9) NEW TESTAMENT {NEW{TE}{STAMEN}T} TE from? (Addendum - {NEWT}{E{STAMEN}T} - See comments)
13 One who’s woolly and disreputable? (5,5) BLACK SHEEP [CD]
14 A meal with beans cooked for one on deck (4,6) ABLE SEAMAN {A}{MEAL+BEANS}*
18 Unexpectedly, see vibrating neutrino losing energy (3,4) RUN INTO NeUTRINO*
19 Flower opening initially, offensive scent emitted (3,4) TEA ROSE {TEAR}{Of...e}{Sc..t}{Em...d}

21 Wife: 'tapas includes cheese' (4) FETA [T]
22 Upside-down bats with cause to be unconscious (4) STUN<=

Reference List
Liberal = L, Date = D, Time = T, Australian = A, Energy = E