CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
6 Quirky wedding beside a lake surrounding nunnery (14)
9 Lay at first in bed mostly the worse for wear (6)
10 Suppress the short
races in part (8)
11 Men only put in reduced bid behind the scenes (8)
13 I have something to
eat after duck (6)
15 One’s knackered touring Australia? Take a nap (6) 17 Funny story about English aphrodisiac? (6) 19 Seize someone’s bed containing genetic material (6) 20 A metaphor is meant to comprise a pithy expression (8) 22 Offensive articles by graduate (8) 24 One participates in beam as fit as a fiddle, say (6) 26 Papers I study with Italian recalled tale about American (14)
DOWN
1 Flashy and loud with fine bust, like figurehugging clothing (5,9)
2 Racecourse bans a
Glaswegian perhaps (4) 3 Wool supplier’s new in
Athens marketplace (6) 4 Cultivate tiny tree for
donkey’s years (8)
5 Mail initially stuffed
in pocket (4)
7 European runs into
upset judge (6)
8 Sport I’ll win with strangle potentially? (3-2,9)
12 Small instrument,
like 3 (5)
14 Decide to dispense with mine that’s put off (5)
16 An unknown number of people managed to ignore old popular flyer (8)
18 Trip to see game in South Africa arranged to bypass Cape (6)
21 Cavalryman originally had one in Russia formerly (6)
23 Savour endless
dance (4)
25 Bloke hides one
water-carrier (4)
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