Clues across |
9 | Essential to put excess (with something unknown missing) in tangled yarn (9) |
10 | I care about heather (5) |
11 | Bind badly around oar within ship’s hull (7) |
12 | Doctor hummed not hard! and banged away (7) |
13 | Innocent, I’m in part of church (5) |
15 | Cheek that is about politician with deranged dunce (9) |
17 | He shares your compartment and your political beliefs (6,9) |
19 | Colonel, we’re told, has money we sent back with idiot (6,3) |
20 | Twisted girder with end missing seen in earth thrown up by plough (5) |
21 | Tell of net thrown loosely round motorist’s emergency service holding Rolls-Royce (7) |
23 | American battleship caught in rain storm? No, it’s from the USSR (7) |
25 | Turning machine made from two European articles (5) |
26 | “Wed top sports medallists!” we’re told, and get a bouquet of these? (9) |
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Clues down |
1 | Write your name if I am unable to do so, surrounded by leaders of Irish National Liberal Youth, ineffectually (15) |
2 | Laundress who ironed while the strike was hot? (4) |
3 | Paces awkwardly towards the east to get away (6) |
4 | Ruthless bird, tail over head, caught in hat with inverted net (4-6) |
5 | Deceased, we’re told, changed colour (4) |
6 | Confuse feeble dud lacking energy confuse with strong drink (8) |
7 | Took to pieces or took off cloak? (10) |
8 | A cruel streak could be shared, shared with hospital department (4-11) |
14 | Provide picture, adding lustre to tail, perhaps (10) |
16 | Are they driven up the wall? Or employed in the fracture clinic? (10) |
18 | Edward, overcome by musical drama, made things work (8) |
20 | Show acceptance again, and give up (6) |
22 | Space mother? That’s novel! (4) |
24 | Appearing unemployed, beginner gets in a muddle with DIY (4) |
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