Mistral 1

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ACROSS
1. Fictitious Christian R's fictitious non-Templar (?) sect member. (11)
5. Male madness. (5)
7. Lord Mountbatten's sub-continent granddaughter. (5)
9. The lion's hair. (4)
10. Cast aspersions from 17 across. (6)
11. Measured with homonyms of jewels. (6)
13. God of fertility. (4)
15. Solid items of worship. (5)
16. Rimmer's eighth letter. (5)
17. Turfed hillock (beloved of conspiracy theorists). (6,5)

DOWN
1. Having memory of a circle of fire. (11)
2. Unwanted crustacean, in your pants! (4)
3. Working for you. (5)
4. Prehistoric man from the near land. (11)
6. Value of all numbers bar none. (3-4)
8. Plunge idiot into egestion. (7)
10. Cunning absence of vowels. (3)
12. Mixed-up wise guys post vaporisation. (5)
14. Get unemployment in the bag. (4)

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