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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

29/10

ACROSS

1. Killed off as mirth in the Southeast started dwindling (11)

8. Made signs that urged set of variations (8)

9. Trading-post full of rather tasty starters (4)

10. Opposing wills colliding for fifty in ready money (5)

13. Little by little, a boy was fine in Ireland (4)

16. Took advantage of one as one was wont in the past (4)

17. Don’t go on with a bit of liquid medication (4)

18. Be inclined to take part in the lists (4)

20. Was perhaps dreaming of first love among seven in France (5)

24. Enthusiastic review thrown out on leaving Verona (4)

25. One is rid of disruption caused by mockery (8)

26. Where journalists were quick to put setter straight (5,6)

DOWN

2. A model of the foot that should endure (4)

3. Normal part for Santa Claus, unless he’s upset (5)

4. Cads one kicks back out of the scrum (5)

5. Plunder an infantryman’s best friend? (5)

6. True garlic grown with uranium as a rural pursuit (11)

7. What’s in store mounting up as one is amassing weaponry (11)

11. There’s something wrong with a schoolteacher (female) (5)

12. This sense of heroin is common (5)

14. It isn’t easy to find meat so underdone (4)

15. Lost one’s balance or one’s heart (4)

19. It is to be developed as article the writer is given (5)

21. Vegetables that look smooth and glossy head-to-tail (5)

22. There’s a name for an ecclesiastic in a previous sense (5)

23. Drink one will get in in opposite directions (4)

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