Special, 05 Jul 2020, Paddy

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ACROSS
1   Child rights organization holds top emergency evacuation plan, but it makes you feel crawly (6)
4   Scaffold stands because gravity permits (7)
8   Bunk emptied but it is still messy inside (7)
9   Transport container base used for shooting (7)
11 Weary me, squeezed by rent, go into rustication (10)
12 Tail of a raincoat, baloney (4)
13 Iconic pop singer, just half (5)
14 Interest changes directions internally, but makes the connection (8)
16 Director General stayed between bases leading the clever and the thinking was lateral (8)
18 Bemusing ODI in IT makes him a fool (5)
20 John has the key and he can swing it (4)
21 Stimulant before a check should be adhered to on the highway (5, 5)
23 Thorny beast in conflict with thong having lost direction (7)
24 Depart nervously holding spouse (7)
25 Bizarre brief foreign article makes one feel feverish (7)
26 Half of it still a writer (6)

DOWN
1   Mexican oeuvre is about a kayak (5)
2   Say, one in tangled lace is mournful (7)
3   Spice on one makes a sausage (9)
5   Promotion is apposite. Accordingly modify (5)
6   Champion's Lobs terminate inside the baseline. It may boil down to a delicacy (7)
7   He may have air cleaned the place, but it still looks like 8A (9)
10 Till holds the base and edge along the boundary (9)
13 Extra, say, keeps one on course and keeps him on his toes (4-5)
15 Bronze speed is inferior (5-4)
17 Choose an alternative since you are a citizen (7)
19 Initially in Delhi in odd trials, it came out foolish (7)
21 Loops back to hold wire (5)
22 I distribute cards in a Utopian way (5)

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