CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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1. On one's feet, but tries to find a seat (6) 8. Dig deep endlessly when about fiftyfive (5) 9. To picture the words (7) 11. One thing knitter does, as in the law (8) 12. Depend on being quietly included to make a comeback (5) 15. Hide the beginning of knowledge in wrongdoing (4) 16. To be inquisitive is necessary to India's knowledge-seekers (3) 17. He's a caution, but may make one better (4) 19. Muscular comb-maker to cook heartlessly (5) 21. Last arrangement with skin-growth for the stout (8) 24. After end of day canvas shelter is wide open (7) 25. Get to be liable to be at home with a dog (5) 26. Walk a little way (6)

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2. Swap business that may be a way of livelihood (5) 3. Making clear profit, about a pound, is annoyingly stinging (8) 4. With something afoot call for silence for party to return (4) 5. Deck Pole up in an outer part (5) 6. In soccer organisation the French may be unwelcome visitor (4) 7. Pool for a Frenchwoman of family (4) 10. Money popularly is unavoidable (9) 12. Chance three-quarters of 15 being wrong right at the start (4) 13. Was examined for security clearance and put on in the cinema (8) 14. Say one didn't appear in the garden yesterday (4) 18. Such enemies as cause a quarrel given up among Poles (5) 20. The last round bit of fish also to be halved (5) 21. Don't read right through what may be full of rubbish (4) 22.Chief bit of bridge-building, perhaps (4) 23. Was a teacher soundly so strung up? (4)