Hackwoody's Cryptic #2
A crossword with cryptic clues
by Hackwoody

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  •  1  On edge? Elderly US relative laid back breaking nail (8)

  •  6  Extremely naive in reversing make-up of juries (6)

  •  9  Separate part of city Royal Institution must be in (8)

  • 10 Beasts of burden not left to carry millions to festival (6)

  • 11 Engineer loses time getting around national shortage (4)

  • 12 Minor celebrity at the crease beginning to get intense (10)

  • 13 Jazz musician, Bird, in analogue film recording (6)

  • 15 Signed by visitor making second slip with wine (8)

  • 17 Dislodge pirate (5,3)

  • 19 Occasion seen intermittently in port of Maputo (6)

  • 20 Hop clumsily on extremities perhaps...no words can describe this piece of work (5-5)

  • 22 Tree chopped and overturned for nativity prop (4)

  • 23 Went round holes being first place to hide iron (6)

  • 24 Former Marine set out marker (8)

  • 25 Tossed vegetable diet's filling, tough in Glasgow (6)

  • 26 Stage simple to assemble (8)

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  •  2  I'm getting into a state — a moving image? (9)

  •  3  Singer supporting golf? Nothing makes sense (3,2)

  •  4  Climbing to put stop to snagging on tiny machine (7)

  •  5  Not punishing mates, rehabilitated by showing anger, perhaps (7,3,5)

  •  6  Roman governor's exercise regime (7)

  •  7  The best menu on our trip (6,3)

  •  8  Take on board king with unknown number (5)

  • 14 Provocative, revealing to those listening (9)

  • 16 English parliamentarian points south to desert, say (9)

  • 18 Unsettled English making base for unfinished battle after ending in Waterloo (7)

  • 19 Start to plug away fraudulently seeing pounds behind this? (7)

  • 21 Scientist laying down law to prostitute runs away (5)

  • 22 Snow maybe surrounding edge to give ridged effect (5)

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