No 12725, Monday 09 Sep 2019, Bruno

ACROSS
5   Hold on, swapping hands for support (6) CRUTCH C(-l+r)RUTCH
7   Charming daughter meets love in Middle Eastern locale, on vacation (8) ADORABLE {A{D}{0}RAB}{Lo..lE}
9   Love plied surreptitiously for stack of fuel (8) WOODPILE {WOO}{PLIED*}
10 Most recent city tax (6) LATEST {LA}{TEST}
11 Memory of cello concert I played starting to cool off (12) RECOLLECTION {cELLO+CONCERT+I}*
13 SunTrust Banks have unchanged balance (6) STASIS {Su...sT}{AS IS}
15 Distort dress by cutting leg short (6) GARBLE {GARB}{LEg}
18 Hard-hearted, brutal China forced East under control (12) UNCHARITABLE {BRUTAL+CHINA} over {E}
21 Husband consumed by God after boy found God (6) BRAHMA {RA{H}MA}<=>{B}
22 Propose Democrat to replace new rule (8) DOMINATE (-n+d)DOMINATE
23 Rogue finally wants to turn empty life on the run (8) SWINDLER {w..tS}{WIND}{LifE}
24 Battle and persist without leader in conflict (6) RESIST pERSIST*

DOWN
1   Academic boss has loans (8) STUDIOUS {STUD}{IOUS}
2   Shake until HR intervenes (6) THRILL {T{HR}ILL}
3   Depressed member of parliament lounging around (3-5) LOW-LYING {L{OWL}YING}
4   Shameless desire to get one to take bottom off (6) WANTON {WANT}{ONe}
6   Private compartment to work or to meet (8) ROOMETTE*
7   Long time, no see – said secretary, finally at office (6) AGENCY {AGE}{N}{C(~see}{s...rY}
8   Get rid of cabinet's contents (4) LOSE cLOSEt
12 Shouts "Let Luau get rowdy!" before starting to sing (8) ULULATES {LET+LUAU}*{Sing}
14 ... therefore, wire carrying current becomes warm (8) SOCIABLE {SO}{C{I}ABLE}
16 Learns to struggle while absorbing Eastern lessons' essence on authenticity (8) REALNESS {LEARNS}* over {E}{leSson}
17 Think lost love can be replaced by a Cruise? (6) WANDER W(-o+a)ANDER
18 Release Chinese arrested in gun raid (6) UNHANG {UN{HAN}G*}
19 Detain Indian setter guzzling up drink (6) IMMURE {I}{M{RUM<=}E}
20 Escalate goal dispute (4) GROW {G}{ROW}

Reference List
Daughter = D, Love = 0, East = E, Husband = H, Boy = B, Democrat = D, New = N, No = N, Current = I, Eastern = E, Indian = I, Goal = G

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Special, Sunday 08 Sep 2019, Karthikeyan

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Please submit all your answers in one comment.

PREAMBLE

All across clues don't carry the definition part and only wordplay is given.
For example if the clue reads "Old church with brief solution (6)" then the solution is  OCEANS";  the definition "Vast expanses" is not given.

ACROSS
9   Somewhat inferior perhaps on reflection (5)
10 Democracy mostly silent (9)
11 Lamenting not suitable for children (7)
12 Round copper table (7)
13 Word that can precede "tennis" or follow "pool" (5)
14 About Bhopal's borders spread to the west (9)
15 In poll are voters backing? (7)
17 Power enters my soul group (7)
19 In the year exceptional to art (9)
22 Small capitals lost (5)
23 Insurer in retrospect allows wrong date (7)
24 Revolutionary town-crier dismissing partners (7)
25 Top two proposed leaving wild deer (9)
26 Part of Gurkha kit (5)

DOWN
1   Not for sales support concerning movement study (11,4)
2   Viable to love every pro (8)
3   At first movement of books in library explained means of communication (6)
4   Havana on reflection in lake is miserable (8)
5   Amateur doctor supporting political movement with composure (6)
6   Cleverly belts you slowly (8)
7   Smarter, I had degree abroad (6)
8   It is a fine method deployed by this issue (3,5,2,5)
16 Dutch car with English plate chasing vehicle to witness the burning of a heretic (8)
17 Love deserts anyhow magnetic units (8)
18 Offer to support old style gangster (8)
20 Nagpur leader moved into a territory (6)
21 They work on the floor once relit around space (6)
22 Goes down taking thousand lizards (6)

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The Sunday Crossword No 3064, Sunday 08 Sep 2019

ACROSS
1   Pig called out for flavouring (6) PEPPER (~ peppa)
5   Acknowledge regularly ignored age-old expression of relief (5,3) THANK GOD {THANK} {aGeOlD}
9   With no end in sight, planet consumed in flood (8) SATURATE {SATURn}{ATE}
10 I see Europe limit what’s threatened by global warming (3,3) ICE CAP {I}{C}{E}{CAP}
11 Person trapped in grand lavatory departs with contrary mood and unpleasant atmosphere (5,3,4) GLOOM AND DOOM {G}{LOO}{MAN}{D} {MOOD<=}
13 Made smooth moves, fluttering lids (4) SLID*
14 A nameless visionary with a pleasant odour (8) AROMATIC {A}{ROMAnTIC}
17 Surprising appearance of genetic material (lacking nitrogen) startled Darwin (4,4) DAWN RAID {DnA}{DARWIN*}
18 Far off and regularly war-weary (4) AWAY {wAr-WeArY}
20 Expert with 'original' notion: spending time to get seasonal ingredients (4,3,5) SAGE AND ONION {SAGE}{AND}{NOtION*}
23 'Little sister,' princess admitted, 'is smooth mover' (6) SKATER {S{KATE}R}
24 Everyman’s introducing two ways to be revealing (8) IMMODEST {I'M}{MODE}{ST}
25 In her seat, the rider initially will do this! (8) STRADDLE {S{The}{Ri..r}ADDLE} &lit
26 ‘Shy old Lawrence’ is actually kind of a wolf (6) COYOTE {COY}{O}{TE}

DOWN
2   Morose at first, and cut up, faced with ordeal at school (4) EXAM {Mo...e}{AXE}<=
3   Dragged in to fix something, being clued-up (7-2) PLUGGED-IN {P{LUGGED}IN}
4   Absence of emotion in ‘About a Boy’ (6) REASON {RE}{A}{SON}
5   Film in which maidens with auto hell-bent! (6,3,6) THELMA AND LOUISE {MAIDENS+AUTO+HELL}*
6   'In a while': translation of note giving French farewell (1,7) A BIENTOT {A}{BI{NOTE*}T}
7   Loudly demand massage (5) KNEAD (~need)
8   Describing the Speaker's wild coital roar (10) ORATORICAL*
12 Quick to take in a bit of old cash in sale of old clothes (4,6) FLEA MARKET {FLE{A}{MARK}ET}
15 Save for one time cricket won't be played (1,5,3) A RAINY DAY [DD]
16 According to Spooner, conducted a terrible piece of campaigning (6,2) BANNER AD ( ~ ran a bad?)
19 Black Magic assortment is something avoided by dieters (3,3) BIG MAC {B}{MAGIC*}

21 Run outside (5) EXTRA [DD]
22 Extremely pious holy man over here (4) PSST {PiouS}{ST}

Reference List
See = C, Europe = E, Grand = G, Departs = D, Name = N, Time = T, Sister = SR, Old = O, Lawrence = TE, About = RE, Black = B, Holy man = ST

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