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Across
  1. 4. Open up dead mutilated tailors (8)
  2. 7. Pirates agree painful herbal remedy (7)
  3. 8. Vase in the roof (5)
  4. 10. Exploit male kin (4)
  5. 13. Headless lover remains imposing (8)
  6. 15. Reverend Small is approaching stern with no direction (8)
  7. 17. Foreign heads of state talk rashly about new global emergency (7)
  8. 18. Change reverses the tide (4)
  9. 19. The difference between a badly dressed man on a unicycle and a fashionable man on a bicycle? (6)
  10. 21. Flower from a mixed up love god (4)
  11. 22. Bitter bent jerk (6)
  12. 23. A thing of culture, endless yoga leads to pain (7)
  13. 25. Gives death stares, a relief even villains are beginning to know (8)
  14. 26. Early voting cools temptation (4)
Down
  1. 1. America’s too heavy, it doesn’t matter which way you look at it (8)
  2. 2. Topless birds take pleasure (7)
  3. 3. Surprising discharged rifle dents can (10)
  4. 5. Iridescent bullet (4)
  5. 6. Core energy depleted (7)
  6. 9. Love subtle smells lustrous (10)
  7. 11. Mr Strauss in front of a gallery, floating. (8)
  8. 12. Figure 13: a living tree in your head (7)
  9. 14. The end of sharks (3)
  10. 16. A doodler redesigned a golden city (2,6)
  11. 20. Epic! Lidia went berserk! (5)
  12. 24. Visit eastern guts (4)