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Across
- 1. Casual wear, straight out a good fit (1-5)
- 5. Support group left off a young one (4,3)
- 9. T-square use for instance (7,7)
- 11. Freshwater mammals rest when temperature gets hot (6)
- 12. Ridicule penned ably by Goldsmith for one (8)
- 13. Dramatic works of Shakespeare popular all-round (5)
- 14. Recipe of publisher to make savoury snacks (9)
- 16. Brexit perhaps is all about ultimately unwanted quarrel with European Union to leave victor (5,4)
- 18. KO’s resulting in grunts? (5)
- 20. I had gone through Sholay front to back in leisure time (8)
- 22. One feeling sentimental for very fine couple (6)
- 24. Crafty writer to term one plot — nothing hard (11,3)
- 25. To gripe uncontrollably, that inflates self-importance for some (3-4)
- 26. Encouragement for Spanish learner taking very English GCSE exam (1-5)
Down
- 2. Close by regular topline public transport (7)
- 3. Blowing top off, quantifier for anger? (9)
- 4. Staple course (4)
- 5. Part with drug, stopping craze and finishing, however unpleasant it is (6,3)
- 6. Name for woman or women taking care of children endlessly (5)
- 7. Chapter getting more feverish in exciting story (7)
- 8. 10 is 2 here? (6,6)
- 10. From limo to RV, eh I clean any conveyance (5,7)
- 14. Express disapproval by rejecting role of mine (5,4)
- 15. Pope to try dancing for example (9)
- 17. Gravity a little lower, not oddly, going up for an astronomer (7)
- 19. Letter about girl being absent (3,4)
- 21. Appliance in a club to turn down volume (5)
- 23. Tillable? (2,2)
