CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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1. Force one into hasty action to make it rain (11)

8. Sort of etching that might describe 6? (8)

9. Start playing when everybody can enter (4)

10. Mouselike creature tamed by Petruchio (5)

13. Jack lost his head at the centre of the wheel (4)

16. A large amount of money may be acceptable (4)

17. Elegance given a go in Illinois (4) 18. Quiet interlude socially acceptable in Love's Labour's Lost (4)

20. If not resting, he's in part-employment (5)

24. Not fit to lose heart, for one thing (4)

25. Three got entangled with each other (8)

26. The shelf for this sort of hotel breakfast? (11)

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2. Seriously beat fish, chopping head off (4)

3. Seize somebody thought to be worth marrying (5)

4. It is found at one leaving solitaire for the money (5)

5. Mast of oak (5)

6. Danube blue or sea green: get the picture? (11)

7. Like a day inserted for Lent I carry a responsibility for (11)

11. Spanish region jar one broke had nothing in it … (5)

12. … but with Asti upset, it's in the middle (5) 14. It may be hurtful to some of the teachers (4)

15. A basin to deliver over (4) 19. Divulge nothing in Lent maybe (3,2) 21. Circus performer took chlorine and won out (5)

22. A glycerine ester whole industry employs (5)

23. Hare about like an ostrich in S America (4)