
Four clues lack a
definition.
ACROSS 1 Church woman gets to
importune for payment with help (5,6) 9
Poet’s “Old Sixpence” is awfully nostalgic, for starters
(7) 10 Sign of cross mostly represented
holy love (7) 11 Recalling some prior
territory? (5) 12 Tense mob set on rioting
in US city (9) 14 Prisoner, a fraudster,
against study (3) 15 Climber finds, for
example, Cheshire pine around lake (6,5) 17
Shortening a game entailed amateur dropping out
(11) 19 ’Arry’s condition for mischievous
sort (3) 20 They may keep spirits on
the move (3,6) 22 Performing poetry at
first in theatre (5) 23 Ordered a porno
pic, initially without obligation to buy
(2,5) 25 Fate thus left Austria in
recession (7) 26 Woman’s not paid right
off (6,5)
DOWN 1 President of clubs needing
dressing gown regularly (7) 2 I am a
carbon compound containing nitrogen and oxygen – one
principal part of diet (5,4) 3 Even so,
music group’s unable to do anything without record
(11) 4 High places sometimes associated
with a daisy? (3) 5 Ancient Greeks
suppressing rising trouble for ages
(5) 6 Go down and see academic with degree
(7) 7 Harm orchard, circulating poisonous
gas above (10,3) 8 Frequently found in
extremely deep lake (13) 13 Bed of
shellfish (clams) uses surprisingly low pressure
(6-5) 16 Some tea? Be mother and state it
smells nice (9) 18 He used canvas to
depict an angel (7) 19 European agreement
set back leading plant disease (3-4) 21
American city with power over state capital
(2,3) 24 Decapitate wild animal with blade
(3)
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