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BlueJay

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  •  8  Mark's batting second - out of order again (8)

  •  9  Listen in on large following, initally expecting authoritarian religion (6)

  • 10 Computer-generated fiction reads, at first, less appealing (6)

  • 11 Damaged once used, that's unacceptable (2,6)

  • 12 Socialism evident primarily among evacuated art works self-published in Eastern Bloc (8)

  • 13 Arch nemesis extremely invested in proper power (6)

  • 14 Spread gherkins, hated, on toast (5,4,6)

  • 18 Connective tissue, in ham or steak, sent back (6)

  • 20 Form of life, Omicron perhaps, arising after mutation (8)

  • 23 Facial hair from last of pirates injured at sea (8)

  • 24 Oppose King Arthur's foster brother, for example (6)

  • 25 Valuable uncovered, due before the third of last month (6)

  • 26 Bring about vacuous electrician with repair worker (8)

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  •  1  Engine almost flying over top of monkey puzzle (6)

  •  2  Nothing like a rainbow to make a blue-green colour! (8)

  •  3  Leaders of state, naughtily partying around, are getting caught (6)

  •  4  Question over what Tinder note mischievously means - to go for a night out? (5,3,4,3)

  •  5  Perpetually loveless individual gets hot and extremely nervous (8)

  •  6  Disturbance in force by gunmen and fool (6)

  •  7  Sailor's line in film after something boring turned up (3,5)

  • 15 Sex with unknown number in stylish suite, most luxurious (8)

  • 16 Queen regularly wearing gemstone on vacation, vainly, but in a way that is hard to see (8)

  • 17 Trying desperately, gonna win! (8)

  • 19 Originally flooded marshland, upended under draft animal, to be used only once (3-3)

  • 21 Spirit with spiritual exercise endlessly climbing underneath ancient tree (6)

  • 22 Disturbed rattlesnake, biting zoologist's head (6)

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