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This puzzle from Christopher, a new setter, has a theme in which several clues refer neatly to two key answers. It is good fun and I hope you enjoy solving it as much as I did. Favourite clue: 2 down. (PDF version)

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ACROSS
7
Plot to grow fruit or vegetable (7)
8 Get back one who wanders around Mecca regularly (7)
10 Short fellow from 22 with part of a cooker? (6)
11 I shall endeavour, initially, to follow directions around 2’s floating refuge, from where Miss Timmins went to Candleford in 22 (4,4)
12 Perhaps wormwood is back in the sabre hilt (4)
13 Minister joy from 22 of 2 (10)
14 Routed money the wrong way for 22 of 2 (11)
19 Party for an ultrasound scanner? (4,6)
22 Perhaps I will read this in a stream, but not a river (4)
23 Large section of 2 I found in 22 of maps showing a mythical land (8)
24 Sam due to be treated as a mythical character (6)
25 Regret awful flea bed (4,3)
26 No trace to turn in the one who carried it out (7)

DOWN
1
Soldier to report back about love (7)
2 Initially, twenty holy epistles belonged in Brother Luther’s editions of this good 22 (3,5)
3 Creator of 22s is more dry in humour over time (6)
4 To make this fruity tart, put a part of the body and skin of fowl into pan (4,4)
5 Sleuth from 22s has most of a pear in Belgium, followed by a large portion of 2 (6)
6 Unwillingness without a translation of 2? (7)
9 22 is a clue for rev oil! (6,5)
15 Islander to catch the sun around Haiti, badly (8)
16 22 of what’s taken when making fun about peculiar body (4,4)
17 22 of 2 is dull, cut (7)
18 Creator of 22s shows son and nephew of Abraham returning with ball, perhaps (7)
20 Wise, we hear, to host nobleman occasionally but regularly (6)
21 Poles follow travelling people in 22 of 2 (6)