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Both sets of clues lead to the same answers, revealing in the shaded squares a BBC One drama starring Jenna Coleman (3,3).

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STRAIGHT CLUES ACROSS 7 Decorative item (8) 9 Required (6) 10 Jealousy (4) 11 Old keyboard machine (10) 12 A piece of poetry (5) 14 Tall (5) 15 Unfortunat­ely (4) 16 Remain (4) 17 Loft room (5) 18 Copper/zinc alloy (5) 23 Most badly behaved (10) 24 Ship’s company (4) 25 Visible water vapour collection­s in the sky (6) 26 Get-togethers, rallies (8) DOWN 1 Tree shoot (6) 2 Differ (4) 3 Sums outstandin­g (5) 4 Recognised, understood (5) 5 Airborne chopper (10) 6 Not long ago (8) 8 Video recording material (4) 13 Important, significan­t (10) 15 Genuinely, really (8) 19 Snow vehicle, sleigh (6) 20 Hoard money away (5) 21 Organism (4) 22 Severe gradient (5) 24 The shape of wound cable or a snake? (4) CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS 7 Decorate with ten Roman items (8) 9 It’s required to end otherwise around the meandering Dee (6) 10 Some sullen vying leads to a deadly sin (4) 11 I wept. Retry a change of printing device (10) 12 What cheese can do with ease! (5) 14 Some, but not all, of Tyburn’s victims were tall (5) 15 Sad to say, it shows the openings of anything long and short (4) 16 Remain a supporter on a ship (4) 17 Cat, it turned out, is at the top of the house (5) 18 Metal supporter for a lady on a ship (5) 23 Eight aunts about to show those who are worst behaved (10) 24 A little filthy lucre will find the gang (4) 25 Could, maybe, Somerset initially see potential signs of rain? (6) 26 Meets gin production in gatherings (8) DOWN 1 Growth of a suboffice (6) 2 Contents of a samovar yielded a change (4) 3 Amounts owing from best characters following dubious start (5) 4 It’s recognised now in the outskirts of Kingston (5) 5 Somehow cope with Hitler in a flying machine? (10) 6 Trust with a little money inside. Certainly not long since! (8) 8 Record paté recipe (4) 13 Gainful men turned out to be significan­t (10) 15 Allay cut potential, in fact (8) 19 Some serious ledger entries about a seasonal item (6) 20 Set aside new hats after the start of summer (5) 21 Inspiratio­n for an idea requires a little danger money (4) 22 Expensive and going up rapidly (5) 24 Wind up in an Adriatic oil tanker (4)

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