| Across | | 1 | Panto character, often pressed (7) | | 5 | Fit message inside a page (7) | | 9 | Has no right to hurt part of the body (5) | | 10 | Rules are anyhow quite alien at the start and finish (9) | | 11 | Frustration of man turning up to meeting (14) | | 13 | Fashionable to retain company image (4) | | 14 | Birdman, having left once, strangely goes into RAF on return (8) | | 17 | Concealed? Or rule it out? (8) | | 18 | Pay for a measure (4) | | 21 | It's uniform practice for the cast (5,9) | | 23 | Foreign duchess nearly went first as planned (9) | | 24 | In the museum do go back to ask, finally, for a drink (5) | | 25 | Titled woman half missed horrible family (7) | | 26 | Help go through it again, putting in extra energy (7) |
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| Down | | 1 | Speculate about a defeat (4) | | 2 | React calmly to failure of mixture in the hot cake tin (4,2,2,3,4) | | 3 | Single approach is not mutual (3-3) | | 4 | Agent takes shelter inside when tired (6) | | 5 | Man taken to health centre gets cold (8) | | 6 | Cue pilot to change dressing (8) | | 7 | Confidentially, this is what keeps us apart (7,3,3,2) | | 8 | People who make one cross? (10) | | 12 | Drink until one man returns, beaten to a pulp (10) | | 15 | Campaigns somehow scared us (8) | | 16 | Theatrical training? (4,4) | | 19 | Look to bring in publicity for article (6) | | 20 | Small stones left by tomb (6) | | 22 | Grow less pale before the end (4) |
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