Cryptic Crossword

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This is a cryptic crossword; you can learn more about solving them here. In addition to the standard cryptic rules, one entry in each row must have a letter inserted before being entered in the grid. (Modified entries are all real words.) For all other across entries, the wordplay portion will yield a letter sequence with one extraneous letter.

Across

  1. Pamper before drinking red wine
  2. Drunkard swallowed nothing but ashes
  3. Slam boy President, who loses his head
  4. Join with regressive Martinez inside European Union
  5. I'm embroiled in brouhahas for so long
  6. Tabernacle architecture conceals organ
  7. Pete Seeger's group flutters around southeast
  8. Let turn yellow
  9. Foul-smelling row
  10. Search crazily for someone following you
  11. Beers in the west of Britain
  12. Angry about Greek woman showing up before the start of elegant party
  13. Trace of tin found among sulfur, argon, lead...
  14. It's a mistake to pry awkwardly
  15. Uptight Greek character removed from yearbook
  16. Actors Bruce and Laura voiced pitchers

Down

  1. Call before trimming cute hairdo (7)
  2. One of a nation's young leaders (3)
  3. In Bojack Horseman, gubernatorial candidate rejects leftist label and embraces extreme conclusion (4)
  4. Rabbit's head stuffed in uncooked beef produces something unpleasant to eat (4)
  5. Tribute to model stripped bare (3)
  6. Actress Reid's holding on to current collection of royal headwear (6)
  7. Employ second-person form of address for group of Brooklyn auditors (3)
  8. Change permanently to black! (4)
  9. Pretentious snobs at cross purposes lose bit of poise (7)
  10. Broke up with innately nice adult (6)
  11. Know about a good for sale (5)
  12. Eggs: large, round (4)
  13. Put another way, Laos is something else (4)
  14. "Hello, sailor!" A prostitute, yes? (4)
  15. Request to jump back to front (4)
  16. Ran around, excited at first, around, around (4)
  17. Snake was possibly hiding something (3)
  18. Feminist goal of another time (3)
  19. Endlessly confess wrongdoing (3)

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