The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 26,809 - Feb 17 2016

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Clues Answers
7 squandered stand-in BLUEBEARD
Agog about origin of Liver Bird STARLING
Allusion to 'taste for decapitation'? REFERENCE
Anguish concealed by mentors? TORMENT
Capital inwardly greeting Zambia's rootstock RHIZOME
Composer's strings binding soldiers CORELLI
Endlessly dressing feathered friend ROBIN
Expected to come back into season, almost like medieval society FEUDAL
Fanatic collecting what's laid up in lump NUGGET
Faux pas boss cut short GAFFE
Force into modest car and get stranded RUNAGROUND
Get into tangle stirring 10 drink ENTWINE
Go hither and thither with Shed and 'is missus? MEANDER
In Mexico, druid, dropping boundaries, reconstructed 19, say UXORICIDE
Kick-start computer BOOT
Clues Answers
Man with no time but lots of money? MISER
Nameless 23 given high-tension illumination STARLIGHT
Neuro-doctor operated on Shakespeare's Globe? RONDURE
Non-fliers, holding US wheel-protector back, honourably discharged EMERITUS
Outlay of former writer extracting Greek character from muse EXPENSE
Perfume for female Indian of rank holding an animal back FRANGIPANI
Picture of brain spread around, coating new mushroom ring ENCEPHALOGRAM
Plant journalists — one of them receives honour EMBED
Plough furrow backwards, becoming swollen TURGID
Put on rack in custodial sentence STRETCH
Seek answers amid 24 or 25 sheets INQUIRE
Shakespeare's dog Nipper? CRAB
Star teacher is going round university SIRIUS
The Gaul gets to tear 6 apart ASTERIX