The Hindu Crossword No. 2409

Across

 1 Practical knowledge, in a sense (7)
 5 Players holding one, a card game (7)
 9 Fanciful hope conveyed by one in US pop group (4,5)
10 Lesson to be learned from marks prior to examination (5)
11 Dance with one after end of jig (5)
12 Plenty with seaman at a French ball (9) 
13 Rest enter and get crushed in london thoroughfare (6,6)
17 Corrupt tales spread in old beauty spot? (5,7)
20 Duck from the North diving into turbulent Grasmere (9)
22 Peculiar charm of a capital abroad (5)
23 Fabric wife kept in drawer (5)
24 Clothier elsewhere's better equipped (9)
25 Take flight from tarmac, skirting one (3,4)
26 He had to, in the wars, in a Spitfire? (7)

Down

 1 Agreement follows one motorway collision (6)
 2 Touch of unease in back from lying down (6)
 3 Sponsor got padre worried holding nipper's head (9)
 4 What one may read a child in an oft-repeated situation? (3,4,3,5)
 5 Appear to write hurriedly, needing to reach the required standard (4,2,2,7)
 6 Wayfarer needs leg up onto loco (5)
 7 Visitor stumped warden (8)
 8 Complaints from me, last in, possibly (8)
14 Article on crack is supported by head of team, one who gives treatment (9)
15 Wound, fencing one German with oriental sword (8)
16 Keeper with a gun - raid is thwarted (8)
18 A drink from one may give you courage (6)
19 Consecrated area of land inSouth Dakota (6)
21 Put up with fat, lacking bit of taste (5)

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