DOUBLE TROUBLE

ACROSS

8 City once known as ‘Auld Reekie’ (9) 9 Roman goddess of plenty (3) 10 WWII trio of American singing sisters (7) 11 Softly, in music (5) 12 City of the Dead in Dante’s The Divine Comedy (3) 14 ___ Plain, Roxy Music hit (8) 16 Guarantees (8) 18 Schindler’s ___, Thomas Keneally book (3) 21 Twelve ___ Men, Henry Fonda film (5) 23 Fourth book of the Bible (7) 25 ___ Filippo Lippi, Robert Browning poem (3) 26 Characteristic (9)

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1 Admiration (6) 2 Dark beer (4) 3 Oldest Sunday paper (8) 4 1996 Schwarzenegger film (6) 5 Hack (4) 6 1986 film starring Bob Hoskins and Michael Caine (4,4) 7 Mary ___, The Maltese Falcon actress (5) 13 ___ Express, Marlene Dietrich film (8) 15 1994 Stephen King horror novel (8) 17 Latitude, in degrees, of the North and South Pole (6) 19 1955 Howard Keel musical (6) 20 Canadian resort in the Rocky Mountains (5) 22 Chinese dynasty, 1279-1368 (4) 24 ___ Olmert, former Israeli PM (4)

ACROSS

8 Capital city of Scotland (9) 9 Military manoeuvres (abbrev)(3) 10 Dame Julie ___, veteran actress (7) 11 Instrument with black and white keys (5) 12 Pluto’s Roman counterpart (3) 14 ___ creeper, climbing plant with bright autumn colours (8) 16 Documents needed for police searches (8) 18 Biblical boat (3)

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21 Very cross (5) 23 Figures, digits (7) 25 ___ Diavolo, spicy pasta sauce (3) 26 Give the credit to (9) 1 Gaze, stare (6) 2 Clement (weather) (4) 3 Eye-witness (8) 4 Classroom rubber (6) 5 ___ and change, go from one thing to another (4) 6 Famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci (4,4) 7 Lady ___, first woman to sit in Parliament (5) 13 China’s chief industrial and commercial city (8) 15 Chronic inability to sleep (8) 17 Bingo’s highest number (6) 19 Fate, destiny (6) 20 Aberdeenshire town (5) 22 China’s currency unit (4) 24 ___ Barak, Israeli PM 1999-2001 (4)