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1 China protects gold haul for nation (8)

6 End of all but the last of medium-dry wine (6)

9 Selection of odder maladies relating to organ (6)

10 Rioting is over – caught in a new hostility (8)

11 Beset by trouble, airmen with ultimately duff fuel (8)

12 Invertebrate pierced by daughter beginning to emit gunk (6)

13 Army officers ran nonspecialist shop (7,5)

16 Landowners in arrangement to sell lord hams (12)

19 Reveal Frenchman’s one request after getting married (6)

21 Possessing case? (8)

23 Quietly remove painting, perhaps (8)

24 Outsiders in Sale are characters to be shifted (6)

Revolutionary astute about black gemstones (6)

26 Given the OK, I’d fire at criminal (8)

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2 Working with upset celebrity, not suitable for many (3-3)

3 Father supporting crew without energy to reach US city (5)

4 Bird folding flailing wings in crash (9) 5 Left well-paying job to become student (7)

6 Prepare to put on clothing (5)

7 Insects from plant life covering South American capital (9)

8 Entertainer’s to demonstrate climbing large apparatus (8)

13 Good colleague accepts worker with right spirit (9)

14 Delay surfacing – overheard force prepare an ambush (3,2,4)

15 Willing, in the morning, to help (8) 17 The girl taken another way becomes less wearying (7) 18 A meeting-place’s means of access (6)

20 Romantic kiss on vacation includes bite (5)

22 One in possession of article with force after them? (5)