The Northern Advocate

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. A more angry shade of red (6)

8. This town is the oriental area, not the pottery (5)

9. Film shot will not be successful in the trophy (5-2)

11. Three painted panels used to try pitch out (8)

12. Show off a pen at the end of the week (5)

15. Caustic earth or fruit of the linden (4)

16. 1,009 to blend in (3)

17. So friendly to the drug-taker perhaps (4)

19. Shining with heat, it makes the law go wrong (5)

21. Rashness I met with, changing tyre (8)

24. At a previous time be recumbent in the rear perhaps (7)

25. It’s an alternativ­e form of dye (5)

26. Sounding like cattle that come out first in the log (6) DOWN

2. Permit a driver under instructio­n to sound like a cow (5)

3. To unearth one Red isn’t complicate­d (8)

4. It was a party: can you put it to flight? (4)

5. Policeman in the Southeast has room to manoeuvre (5)

6. A very little can start to yawn (4)

7. It’s a party: can you beat it? (4)

10. Assert how it capered about (9)

12. Is there no other fish in Dover? (4)

13. There’s no going upstairs to bed here (8)

14. The crop of corn starts uncooked (4)

18. He’s an eccentric who will wind away at the engine (5)

20. Such a lot of water for canoe to negotiate (5)

21. Last of the draught to request a job (4)

22. Cat gets back up around a castle ditch (4)

23. It’s a boat, y’all hear? (4)

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