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Independent 6,908

Blank crossword grid

Across

    1  Playing in a clinic’s muted – only occasional tunes? (10,5)

    9  Quickly run out after everyone, say (7)

  10  Author adding line to question in set (7)

  11  Local names applied to one (3)

  12  Boast stair-posts inlaid with foremost of jade and other gems (5,6)

  13  Cancelled nude dancing if unwell, retiring inside (9)

  15  American backed 11 turning Muslim (5)

  16  Follow to make sure queen’s abdicated (5)

  18  Leading support for sail, beginning to reject fuel supply (9)

  20  Meet in place that’s busy? It’s often underneath the clock (11)

  22  Journey for which there’s no time should be cut (3)

  23  Missing start of cup tie, note, being taken to higher things (7)

  24  Notices one’s garden’s edges getting covered by herb (7)

  26  Space orbiter to aspire to collect debris, not initially select rocks (6,9)

Down

    1  It’s given in full here (7,8)

    2  Stop the Spanish officer (7)

    3  Party’s good to follow (3)

    4  One curious record: ‘Is money coinage?’ (9)

    5  Language not initially appropriate for some 25 (5)

    6  Stage arrangement – I observed second contralto amongst blokes on rear of stage (4,2,5)

    7  That woman’s a busy figure linked to new source of booze (7)

    8  Last eclipse may be laid out here? (9,6)

  12  One view of tourist attraction enforced separation (7,4)

  14  Girl I’d upset about a distribution (9)

  17  Food fish sailor found on limits of strand (4,3)

  19  Confusion from student event in Portuguese resort (7)

  21  Quantity of drink including zero wine (5)

  25  Gossip should be cut, cut (3)

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