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Wednesday 21 October

set by Imogen #30143 on the Guardian

Across

1 Deserved relaxation eventually, being lugged around (6) 5 Bag is in right end of busy dressing room (8) 9 Really excellent ball game cheers king (4-4) 10 Food manufacturers are in protected position (6) 11 Vaccination booster? (4,2,3,3) 13 Live with a socially superior admirer (4) 14 Sacked, one inept dancer who is so unnaturally tall? (2,6) 17 Police chief overrides law for possibly harmful agents (8) 18 Astroturf is too much for left-winger (4) 20 Love acting, without hope of success (7,5) 23 Boiler given oxygen going vigorously like this? (5-1) 24 His toast wants a spread? I don’t believe you (2,4,2) 25 Uncanny children almost messing with time (8) 26 Old district, not one part of America (6)

Down

2 Money maker a failure? Not entirely (4) 3 It is essential, born on earth, to accept some failing occasionally (5,4) 4 Modern business caught up in catastrophe (6) 5 Breaded fish women organised after children’s game and before church (7,8) 6 Monument not cheap to sculpt (8) 7 A lot of lies not initially a problem (5) 8 Indulgence of endlessly pilfered allowance (10) 12 In a row preserving alliance is concerning high-ranking politician (10) 15 Become part of group felling giant tree (9) 16 Emphasise bell stops contest (5,3) 19 Simple restaurant’s gravy overcomes resistance (6) 21 Captain Ahab for one losing weight gets fitter (5) 22 Capital both sides lost in trade union’s protest (4)
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