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Across
- 1. Centre of moustache left incomplete, ridiculous looking fuzz (9)
- 6. Nick, old Bob replacing rector's cloak (4)
- 8. Smells gas in piecrust every so often (8)
- 9. Secure sorry hound from the pound? (6)
- 10. "She's a doctor", injured marine exclaimed (7,8)
- 11. Advantage puts liberal ahead in projection (5)
- 13. Great leader of 1 to give part of self (8)
- 15. Can't shift for oneself without domestics (8)
- 18. Detailed animal insignia (5)
- 20. Give up hope to net worthwhile building (5,2,3,5)
- 23. Take over eastern wing (6)
- 24. Fiction exam said to be dark and heavy? Nothing could be further from the truth (8)
- 25. Ain’t it concealed, according to nature? (4)
- 26. Brew of red teas bottled in years past (9)
Down
- 1. A bit of calm, one might say (5)
- 2. Throwing up in entrance to guardroom under attic (7)
- 3. Butterfly that interrupts mid-sentence! (5)
- 4. Commander's albatrosses possibly observed here (7)
- 5. Molly ran off routinely (8)
- 6. Calling woman from the South numero uno (7)
- 7. Cramming for special quiz Gene rewrote (9)
- 12. Creatures with wrinkled ashen pelt (9)
- 14. Labour uniform of French heads (8)
- 16. Launch undertaking (7)
- 17. Stalkers regularly found under park benches (7)
- 19. Taken in by publicity around transport depot (7)
- 21. Bird decapitated pooch (5)
- 22. Dissertation on South Africa in abridged, oral format (5)
