Not The Saturday Prize Puzzle

NTSPP - 467 by Chalicea
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There is a ghost theme (of course - Chalicea is incapable of setting without one) but solvers don't need to recognise it. The title and ten of the words in the solution grid share a definition in the Chambers Dictionary.

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  •  1  Force way into unusual recipe (6)

  •  4  Singular girl, Hebrew princess, returning to constantly trouble (6)

  •  8  Braised, cooked marine flier (7)

  •  9  Scottish speciality to prohibit pinking sound of combustion engines, we're told (7)

  • 11 Surrounded by gaseous burps, lady's maid from time to time complains whiningly (10)

  • 12 Use knife on wheeling flying mammals (4)

  • 13 Characters among ninjitsus hid their delicacy (5)

  • 14 Musical composition of buff beginning to tour largest continent (8)

  • 16 He and I welcoming revolutionary links in capital city (8)

  • 18 Foremost tree on street (5)

  • 20 Furtive look in both directions (4)

  • 21 Central American's peculiar lingua franca (not originally Latin or French) (10)

  • 23 Be aware beforehand of fixed charge involving mineral aggregates (7)

  • 24 What gives colour to tissues of hog, humans and beetles essentially (7)

  • 25 Affirmative vote expressed to permit very small hole (6)

  • 26 Short time these days for little fish (6)

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  •  1  Portion of pastry dish with starters of Camembert and egg (5)

  •  2  Following end of game, doctor with charity preserves state of body (7)

  •  3  Flower of automobile pursued by great number (9)

  •  5  Gather together in a religious service (5)

  •  6  Memory loss of men wandering in the largest continent (7)

  •  7  Left winger, thus on US intelligence agency register (9)

  • 10 Corn husks in bits of cast-off handfuls for little songbird (9)

  • 13 Dock worker's nerve ends oddly disregarded in warehouse (9)

  • 15 New fashion I enter, fit for Egyptian queen (9)

  • 17 Most excellent meat dish served in rich cream sauce (7)

  • 19 System of government of engineers, US private, and ordinary soldiers (7)

  • 21 Young relative's base in heart of French Riviera city (5)

  • 22 About wintery precipitation just like at the present moment (2,3)

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