Cryptic Crossword from Economic Times,Chennai (8840 of 12-12-2023)

Cryptic Crossword from Economic Times, Chennai (8840 of 12-12-2023) - Fillable and with solution

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Across:
6 Senior pilot can fly with kids under his wing (2,4,8)
9 Notes produced by out-of-tune avocet (6)
10 Smugly self-righteous and obstinate about king (8)
11 Spray blobs on second dish (8)
13 Before noon, peer amended for current measure (6)
15 Old writer's well editing Potemkin without me (6)
17 Zipped along the shoreline in it (6)
19 Hidden talent's squandered (6)
20 Sailor and German soldier produce more than enough (8)
22 Wet air is dodgy for climber (8)
24 One following beam creates disturbance (6)
26 I'm prudent, I call out for machine to dig up the road (9,5)

Down:
1 Christian pupil cut by violent Iranian martinet (14)
2 Argument in court bound to put last first (4)
3 Emphasise deed containing church name (6)
4 Getting rid of water? Dig near a complex (8)
5 It's a problem sticking tin on to silver (4)
7 Painting style ends in Picasso piece (3,3)
8 Horse can be covered outside? That's impossible to get over (14)
12 An antlered animal's inverted joint (5)
14 Quietly put on tartar cloth (5)
16 Sudden eruption of strange tuber in tree (8)
18 Hunt in wild S Africa, not Cuba (6)
21 You precede German and American in this country (6)
23 Instructed, say, at a stretch (4)
25 Fine painting in metallic sheet (4)
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