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Across

1. Meat cuts too warm – return possibly? (4,4)

6. French native from Capri moved to Germany (6)

9. Island pictured in camera – some island! (6)

10. 22’s lady from these falls down badly after fellow leaves (8)

11. Seconds eaten by fat old female on a very important day in the Jewish calendar (4,2,2)

12. Widow, one surviving from the past time (6)

13. One of these overleaps out in Ultimo? Just the opposite (4-8)

16. Birds carried around university here in Dunedin (12)

19. Rick Small makes plenty! (6)

21. In which Harry Lime is missing the field here (5,3)

23. State of confused noise? Bloody awful bedlam, but there’s nothing in it (8)

24. Landing precarious­ly (gravity loss) near Taupo, say (6)

25. Proceeds with minimum effort to get soprano into Tosca cast (6)

26. Follow a winding course around one of the poles to find Greek dramatist (8)

Down

2. ‘Ahoy!’, or possibly ‘Cheerio!’ (6)

3. One way to indicate promontory (5)

4. Without props this reportedly happens in the play Cataract (4,5)

5. Jaffa in this live TV broadcast, including Aucklander initially (3,4)

6. Might Tyrone be one of a family of actors? (5)

7. Cleaning lady Lenya – this is not her name (9)

8. Communists are concerned it will lead to McCarthyis­m (3,5)

13. Start of paper (original research) for the Ministers (9)

14. Mr in Burma and Cambodia: Iranian? Perhaps another national (9)

15. This alto lacks scrota, having been operated on – a tenor brought in (8)

17. Best work with it turning silent (7)

18. Here is an ancient city drink container? Not in Scotland (6)

20. Rugby teams full of bums – no back to be seen (5)

22. He wrote Sad Eyed Lady when drunk mid-evening (5)

How to play

It’s like sudoku: each vertical and horizontal line has to contain the numbers

1-6, and the numbers can’t be repeated in any row or column. The numbers in each heavily outlined set of squares must produce the number in the top corner. For example, 5+ means the numbers add up to 5,

15x means the numbers multiply to 15. Last week

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