CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1.

Right one repeatedly played staccato in blue-blooded form (12)

Where swimmer off Southampton is being cheeky (8)

Judgment on a Benedictine who has swallowed nothing (4)

What sculptor may do is mind about Venus’ head (5)

If one is sewing, this may stop one getting the point (7)

Drop catch and warm hands in it (4)

On the one hand, didn’t stay

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(4)

Engine used in brute manufacture (7)

Customer’s instruction for a fraternity (5)

Have to have made entrance partially in reverse (4)

To use a moving staircase will show a rapid increase (8)

It is amusing, playing the host (12)

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24. DOWN 2.

One getting up vertically to the tread (5)

Change, maybe, is given up to drunken revel a point short (6)

Fancy a tenor turning out like this! (6)

End of Soviet monetary unit was responsible for the bother (7)

How the French get the Ram for their running observations (12)

The situation Circe can and must get sorted out (12)

Mother’s ruin is a snare, perhaps (3)

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What must must do to make wine? (7)

Shot for one addicted may be a bit of a dilemma (3)

Old country to arise awkwardly and quietly to begin with (6)

A mind to move around the ring in all one has dominion over (6)

Shown, by means of a pencil, to have an even result (5)

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across

1. Starch 8. Ready 9. Scallop 11. Departed 12. Steal 15. Bowl 16. Way 17. Take 19. Herbs 21. Reducing 24. Termite 25. Flair 26. Sprint

2. Tacit 3. Reliable 4. Hood 5. Break 6. Fast 7. Eyed 10. Permanent 12. Sobs 13. Streamer 14. Mess 18. Score 20. Baton 21. Raft 22. Dial 23. Gems

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