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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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Across

1. Feeling stomached in troubled times? (11)

8. When one does, it comes to one – in cash, perhaps (8)

9. New Latin night-light (4)

10. The barometer shows some crooked lag joining ship (5)

13. Cut top off cream with what it pours from (4)

16. Dutch location for pirate captain (4) 17. Hindu version of rap, by the sound of it (4)

18. Book such objects for support (4) 20. Moves slowly aside from such as may be frayed (5)

24. For which time has no end (4)

25. It is non-compliant, through poetry (8) 26. With fearful dark quality to the pictures, one imagines (11)

Down

2. Labour always holds range and river (4) 3. Cash-drawer holding top of wad, which is material (5)

4. Smells smoky (5)

5. I coin it in a different order (5) 6. Went, powerless, and didn't get charged for the ride? (4-7)

7. An illuminati­ng character in the streets of history (4-7)

11. Solo version one la can produce (5) 12. Playground equipment set to music? (5) 14. Jump the year divisible by four (4)

15. Or it is grand and ancient (4) 19. Shoulder it away? (5)

21. Picture show may be 26 (5)

22. It will revel in change and wriggle in a small way (5)

23. Explosive things that end with cuffs? (4)

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