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Across
- 1. Frigate error at sea in a compartment kept cool artificially (12)
- 8. No to molten chocolate in a snail-shaped tube (7)
- 9. Hard for Charlie to cut back on seafood (6)
- 11. Unfolding clash in retreat about a pit behind the marked spot (9)
- 12. Mollusc shell in device used for flow control (5)
- 14. Sweet prepared in bitter surroundings for a waterproof hat (9)
- 16. React to sad news in the letters from the Zimbabwe epicureans (4)
- 18. Hauling carriage in the fenced-in area has been sent back (4)
- 19. Fuss by a couple of bridge players on the run with a criminal (9)
- 21. Forces oddly acting to get an ozone-damaging gas (5)
- 22. Most arrogant tot's noise is problematic (9)
- 23. A birthday gift? (6)
- 25. Fish eggs sent back after entry of the queen with a revolutionary Greek character at the dividing line (7)
- 26. Plantain-okra hybrid from a government-protected area (8,4)
Down
- 2. Take in and clean up seat somehow (11)
- 3. Gave way to the climbing animal embracing a period of fasting (8)
- 4. Footwear with multiple straps for a professional boxer (9)
- 5. Rising Somali leader stops for an incense ingredient (5)
- 6. Profit again and again after Victor gets rid of the conservative (6)
- 7. Curve on a spherical surface reportedly leads to hard liquor (3)
- 8. Cook taking in letter with poem about a female becomes annoyed (7,3)
- 10. Oriental enters airports under construction with the right gas mask (10)
- 13. Tests inadmissible in some courts? (3,8)
- 15. Rap cook composed about the queen for some music albums (4,5)
- 17. Start off with a grain (fat left out) to make a device for warming up (4,4)
- 20. Remove some characters from Mithun's eatery (6)
- 22. Caught a cobblestone with an auditor's number in the fracas (3-2)
- 24. Stiff bristle found in a field of mowed grass needs no introduction (3)
