The Herald crosswords

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Bird unsettled men in peer group (7,7)

Student that is at home has extended sleep (3-2)

The main easy thing, it's felt on the front (3,6)

Look into piazza, endlessly, to see filth (7)

Pleased about having passed by (7)

Deposit the Italian in street (4) Tyrant of the newspapers restricted by poor circulation (9)

18 Liberal to relocate, upset

about voting (9)

20 Doubt over regular

instrument (4)

22 Vegetation to increase –

prepare to operate (5,2)

25 Amazing respect for ghost (7) 26 Foreign gent led EC but was ignored (9)

Established principle of a football side's award (5)

What pollen does for one identifying and correcting faults (14) 1 9 10 11 12

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Sign up, or listen out (6)

Bias associated with literary pride (9)

Jewellery allowed on curly attachment (7)

River rose alarmingly, became a lake (9)

Transport from Edinburgh, initially, behind time (5)

Rubbish bin initially in service station (7)

Notions placed aside (5)

Offers for railway wagons? (7) Friend has radical ideas about small fences (9)

Whisky, gin etc for the last few candidates (9)

Excuses about a male child, succeeding initially (7)

Pictorial impression, a beaut, perhaps, framing lady's head (7) Or, for example, an old herb (7) Mother breaks barrier to old republic (6)

Understood to be a man (5)

Bit of a bloomer breaking plate (5)

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Get the ball in the net (5,1,4)

Kind, category (5) Games official (7) Find new accommodation for (7)

Smooth (5)

Artiste (9) Uncontrolled rush (5)

One who enters using military force (7)

Isolated, excluded (4,3) Nourishing soup (5) Groggy after sleep (6-4)

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Large shell (5) Liberator (7)

Fall out in a friendly way (5,2,6)

Edible organs (5) Novice motorist (1-6) 7

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Mark on the body caused by a blow (4)

Malign micro-organism (4) Agitate (7)

Easily shifted (7)

Curved structure (4)

Only just OK (2-2)

Wear away gradually (5)

Male honey-bee (5)