Listener Crossword 801
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ACROSS
6 School head makes
slow progress with
poor handwriting (7)
7 "A lot of ice"
translated from
Gaelic by raw
beginner (7)
9 English goes in to
relax and readjust (5)
10 Chairman's unusual
belief that
governments should
be abolished (9)
11 Distinctively shaped
limbs appear for
example in stadiums
(3,4)
12 See first one in a
group of whales
snuggled together (7)
14 Title he won worth
changing to admit
defeat (5,2,3,5)
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17 Promises made by
fools around an
ancient city (7)
19 Postscripts provide
the finale for the
commercial on the
radio (7)
22 Give a bit of a laugh,
quietly, at a source of
danger, being
slapdash (9)
24 Bisected so now it is
different (2,3)
25 Record made quietly,
the second of the pair
(7)
26 Writer goes back and
applies the axe for
some of the family
(7)
DOWN
1 Puzzles that might
provoke ill-tempered
arguments (even
when as easy as this!)
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(10)
Bandage was silly on
article (6)
Like the Special Air
Squadron, do
something evil with a
murderer (8)
Be vigilant with a
timepiece not quite
accurate, be vigilant
(5,3)
Some speechified for
sound reproduction
(2-2)
Quiet massage with
the broom perhaps (5)
See some of
Douglas's policies in
a mirror (5)
With me older,
doddery, modify the
place (7)
Occasionally, not
when DNA is
involved (3,3,4)
14 The soap is scripted
to show an old
fashioned restaurant
(3-4)
15 Desire to take hold of
a luxury car by the
end of the day with a
guarantee (8)
16 A sign of an on-going
savings policy (8)
18 Step one: being
embraced by celebrity
(5)
20 Having a weak
personality, I very
quietly go in to wipe
the dishes (6)
21 A cat's tiniest parts
(5)
23 What the stripper
does, I hear, being
sound as bell (4)