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- 1 Stop apricot going off, one of a bagful (6,5) 9 Catch husband going astray (7) 10 Hands in drink, Scotch perhaps (5,2) 11 Owns ha-ha? (3) 12 Scorn baffling European conjuror’s skill (7) 13 Theatre in Rome backed Caesar for one (7) 14 Runner in Victoria

ACROSS DOWN

1 Unlikely discovery that’s always being debated? (9,6) 2 Launch Polynesian boat abandoned by Open University (7) 3 Rigid half of hose? (5) 4 Covering part containing small dish (9) 5 Distraught 27 suddenly enters (7) 6 Foreign poet to forewarn Yankee legal authority (5,2,8) 7 Immaculate church seat collapsed (6) 8 Old Greek city state’s role in South America (6) 16 Catholic version of parable about priest’s tree (4,5) 18 Nasty person said to be on the loose in street (6) 19 Tailless bird seen in Cornwall maybe — this one? (7) 21 A medic climbs under guy’s roof (7) 23 Effortless­ly see round a southern island (6) 25 Run up hot dog (5)

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