CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
No 17,093
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ACROSS
6 Head envoy’s bile misrepresented space travellers? (8,6)
9 Pilot’s troubled describing a badly behaved child? (6)
10 Instant with Charles, say, by backward shelter to see predatory fish (5,3)
11 Determination and a lot of skill encapsulating Royal Marines (8)
13 Type with a definite
inclination? (6)
15 Go after information for people of high social position (6)
17 Cutting ambassador
by side of building? (6)
19 Confidential moment about source of treasure (6)
20 Weaken with little energy and feel
Ben is at fault (8)
22 First of signs to remove period of surveillance (5-3)
24 Place has time to find
a crop destroyer (6)
26 Something in a bathroom cabinet could be detectible in mo? (8,6)
DOWN
1 Rogue stopping hence around rear of another retail site (8,6)
2 Spanish artist found in
Granada, limitlessly (4)
3 Clear resolve (6)
4 Unsuccessful sadly
over a bit (8)
5 Journalist definitely disheartened in maelstrom (4)
7 Least convincing team’s in a mess after end of football (6)
8 Where one might glean things after work? (7,7)
12 Style, they say, in large
country house (5)
14 Boxer has security device
almost similar (5)
16 Add later component to an original retort if agitated (8)
18 Amid exercise, let’s
move grinding tool (6)
21 Spring trail (6)
23 Fool mentioned in
a type of fabric (4)
25 Built-up area? It is beset by extremists from country (4)
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