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Times 25913 - where's my car?

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Solving time : 9:26 on the club timer, so that stinker I predicted yesterday did not come today. I suspect there will be faster times than mine, as I didn't see a few of the longer entries immediately, and there were some places and people I got from wordplay alone that might be write-ins for the more Euro-savvy than me.

TOLD appears in the unches in the middle of the puzzle. I think that's an completely circumstantial, however I'm notoriously terrible at spotting nina's, so if there's something else going on I could have missed it.

Away we go...

Across
1RABBI(teacher),TED(young delinquent)
6F,RAISE(hike): got this from the wordplay, I guess it's a type of strawberry brandy, if such a drink needed to exist
9LUNATIC FRINGE: (FRANTIC)*,1 in LUNGE
10ON EDGE: ONE and then alternating letters in DaGgEr
11MENSWEAR: ME then S(lo)W in NEAR
13PECCADILLO: PEC(k), then CAD, I'LL, 0
15DUD,(failur)E
16THAI: first letters of Teaching Hasn't Always Impressed
18WANDERINGS: RING(group) in W,ANDES
21UNDERCUT: double definition, one cryptic
22FIGURE: double definition
23ACCOMMODATION: DA(y) in AC,COMMOTION
25PEWTER: W in PETER
26FIL(e),AGREE
 
Down
2ALLENDE: the Salvadorian president is hidden in whitehALL ENDEavouring
3BENEDICTINE: BE NINE containing EDICT. I'll take it over FRAISE anyday
4TITLE: I think this is a triple definition - Mr by example a right, and what anyone playing sport may be after (that it says "sportswoman" specifically gives me a hint which setter may be responsible for this offering)
5DECIMAL: (CLAIMED)*
6FARANDOLE: (AN,OLD,FEAR)*
7A,N,N
8STEW,(h)ARD
12WEDDING RING: this was my favorite clue of the day, WE, (appreciate)D then DING and RING are sounds of bells
14DOWNCOMER: M(minute) in (WORD,ONCE)* not a term I'm familiar with (it isn't in Chambers, and Collins appears to be down right now) so I got it from wordplay and checking letters. Searching online it appears to be what I would call a downspout?
17HEN,BAN,E
19NUTLOAF: NUT and LOAF can both mean head
20GIRONDE: Andre GIDE surrounding R,ON. I knew this as a dance, didn't know it was a region
22FL,AIL: the abbreviation comes from FLORUIT
24COT: take the A out of COAT

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