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ACROSS

8 To pick up aurally by accident or in an unintentional way (8)

9 Character played by Lucy Punch in TV sitcom Motherland (6)

10 A bowl-shaped depression

produced by an impact (6)

11 Describing films intended to be culturally worthy, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass audience (8)

12 The form and technical language used in e.g. employment contracts (8)

13 Emanuel, German chess player who excelled in the early 20th century (6)

14 ____ Another Day, song by boy band East 17 released in 1994 (4)

16 A sheet of information in the form of a table, graph or diagram (5)

17 Describing vegetation that

is rich and abundant (4)

18 Flora, stage and screen actress born in South Shields in 1902 (6)

20 The Heroes Of ____, 1965 war film about a sabotage mission in Norway (8)

23 A plant with flowers

borne on a spike (8)

24 ____ Hall, fictional country house in the novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover (6)

25 ____ Aluko, female football pundit and ex-player born in Nigeria in 1987 (6)

26 To correct a

literary work (8)

DOWN

1 Hostile or opposed (6)

2 Medium-sized dog breed

with a muscular build (8)

3 Flinders, archaeologist noted for his work on Egyptian excavations (6)

4 Large island group in the Caribbean Sea that includes Cuba and Jamaica (7,8)

5 A level expanse of ground left by the total evaporation of water (4,4)

6 Cylinders of wood or plastic carried in relay races (6)

7 Privately owned spacecraft that landed on the Moon in 2024 (8)

15 Number represented by

M in Roman numerals (8)

16 The nationality of fashion model

Linda Evangelista (8)

17 Lella, racing driver who is the only woman to score points in Formula One (8)

19 The ____ For Scandal, comic play by Sheridan first performed in 1777 (6)

21 Sue, former TV news presenter and host of Desert Island Discs, born in 1946 (6)

22 A partial refund to someone paying too much for tax, rent or a utility (6)

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