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Across
- 7. Personal appeal to assemble armchairs right away (8)
- 9. Bachelor packing glue at sea for a marine mammal (6)
- 10. Measure of strength of an animal by a prisoner of war with hesitation (10)
- 11. Letters from the astronaut (a hooligan) to the state (4)
- 12. Shed's got the ring, reportedly (4)
- 13. Review entertaining account by the Yankee with courage (8)
- 16. Crowd in retreat embraces departure with a flower (7)
- 18. Barrier for enclosing an area for an Olympic event (7)
- 20. Protrusion at the rear end of a marine mammal (8)
- 21. Graduate returning for the Romanian chess piece is out of control (4)
- 23. Leading statesmen hop off, objecting to an exclamative order to disperse (4)
- 24. These might involve getting into the water tummy-first (5-5)
- 25. Horizontal door piece with one trading places with Edward for a protein-rich seed (6)
- 26. An authority on the intricate mural in Yukon's capital (8)
Down
- 1. Rhode Island banned some ceremonial carriages after model's departure in a state of confusion (5)
- 2. Vegetable from a capital with a river in the midst of geysers (8,7)
- 3. The French rushed back around the White House to spot a marine mammal (7)
- 4. Rush with the bishop to get rid of the Asian in a mountain lift (1-3)
- 5. Dilapidated condo? Could caulk make it Aristophanes's paradise? (5-6-4)
- 6. A rose from the clumsy alien gent (9)
- 8. Student follows the primates from the south to get a part of a flower (5)
- 14. Animal obtained using the auditor's cash, informally (3)
- 15. Cooks rest and joke inside before killing animals for food (9)
- 17. Eggs that aren't quite egg-shaped? (3)
- 19. It could be picked for entertainment (7)
- 21. Fancy embassy quarter disappears into a bottomless pit (5)
- 22. Part of the harpoon's permanently in a member of the whale family (5)
- 24. Check the roof-supporting beam (4)
