No 14710, Friday 06 Feb 2026,

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ACROSS

1   Post-graduate hiding dead girl with sheet (10)

6   Spice's odour turning estate's core inhabitants out (4)

9   More fighting - guerrilla finally escapes with family (10)

10 Greek Goddess's loss of heart in earth sadly (4)

12 Straps designed with a bend and decorated like a flag (4-8)

15 Circular displaying head of communist revolutionary (7)

16 Model's bottoms - one concealing nothing is tops! (1-6)

17 Agricultural product from a very old company displaying a date (7)

19 Setter's excited being part of attempt to retract ragtag army (7)

20 Assembly embargoed bananas after seeing money stuffed in (5,7)

23 One chosen to convey answer (4)

24 Dodgy part of city square's last line with worn interior's redesigned (10)

25 Sailor left Shanghai channel (4)

26 Teen milling around very loud riot often recklessly robbing contents has cheek (10)

DOWN

1   Spy week? (4)

2   Realtors pitching outskirts... it's low! (4)

3   Cabins slated to be renovated with stretchy things (7,5)

4   After some time, a language becomes creative (7)

5   Game popular in Spain and Utah (4,3)

7   Delight of perverted liar consumed by old hostility (10)

8   Drink label has upturned flower (10)

11 Ultimately, running hotel's hard (2,3,4,3)

13 Old custom - to put hand in mouth and put on black register (5,5)

14 Essential part of testimony - a cop hid it, surprisingly for unknown causes (10)

18 How I would refer to setter's working style, mainly, during leave? Kicking back! (7)

19 Man waving red flag returning from Belgorod - a Tamilian (7)

21 Fail to win not so tight ODIs, initially getting out (4)

22 Individual working largely in the peripheries (4)