1 Unfortunate result Democratic party has to admit. Ouch! (3,4)
5 Savings account he’s almost sacrificed (5)
8 Cloud American follows with university lecturer leading (7)
9 Old flame appears during star’s comeback: must be a link (5)
10 Russian king found in a wood in France (5)
11 Old-fashioned conveyance or a transport after old times? (6)
13 Anger is restrained, not consumed (6)
15 Ivy’s date: chap’s on time (6)
18 What reason is there, say, to tarnish the Republic? (6)
20 Argentinian rugby players this morning overcome in build-up… (5)
23 …with Australians; the All Blacks are in there at the top – note the battling Antipodean (5)
24 Encourage the old girl to bet? (7)
25 Levi’s sister’s anger initially is after row with husband (5)
26 Vehicle in Iran going all over the place shows an enlightened spirit (7)
Cryptic down
1 Speak ill of one when not around, after avoiding saying anything when one was? (8)
2 Take exception to horrible murder being detailed (5)
3 Look to follow devout in the Curia (4,3)
4 Norman enlightenment? (6)
5 Paradoxical, removing king to create order in Greece (5)
6 French town, a European throwback? About ten get it wrong (7)
7 Ham issue in relation to one of Semitic establishment (4)
12 Where a sea race settled; landing here, according to the Bible (8)
14 You texted yours truly about making zones in the mosque official (7)
16 One indebted to a superior, a key politician, for commission (7)
17 Poet gets place in the Isle of Wight through open deliberation (6)
19 A hard thing to get voice heard over a prophet of doom (5)
21 Mum’s light reading leads to some hot stuff (5)
22 Sing the praises of this Archbishop of Canterbury (4)
Quick across
1 Turn turtle (7)
5 Small terrestrial Old World lizard (5)
8 Issue (7)
9 ‘—– of Athens’, Shakespearean drama (5)
10 Volley (5)
11 Louisa M ——, author of ‘Jo’s Boys’, etc (6)
13 Devon cathedral city, Roman Isca (6)
15 —— Hastings, first Governor-General of India, 1773-1785 (6)
18 Roman procurator of Judea, 26-36 AD (6)
20 18th century lively dance (5)
23 Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk (variant spelling) (5)
24 Crafty ophidian of the Garden of Eden (7)
25 Recipient of a letter from Paul (5)
26 Small or female species of forest animal (3,4)
Quick down
1 Complete board game with pieces (5,3)
2 Medicine bottle (5)
3 Spanish saint, Bishop of Seville from c 600 (7)
4 The Muses, the Fellowship of the Ring, or the US Supreme Court, for example, as a numbered group (6)
5 Athenian Greek (5)
6 Instrument indicating an electrical charge (7)
7 Thomas —-, English composer (1710-78), who wrote ‘Rule Britannia’ (4)
12 Forebear (8)
14 Name of King Jehoiachim
before it was changed by Pharaoh Necho (7)
16 Portuguese holiday region (7)
17 Bleep out (6)
19 Ohio city, birthplace of both Goodyear and Firestone tyres (5)
21 Short-tailed, almost wingless, diving bird (5)
22 Over yonder (4)
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