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ACROSS
1 Exact lookalike of the late
Quasimodo? (4,6)
6 Travel across river from
Belgravia, say, to Maidenhead (4)
10 Undercooked part of dish (7)
11 Company’s chief gets less
productive daily (7)
12 Contrives to disconcert
sneering European (9)
13 Outspoken heretic of race
favoured by the Nazis (5)
14 Engage in a fight (3-2)
15 Chap’s a non-starter, being in
inferior health (9)
17 New codeine recipe damaged
certain type of gland (9)
DOWN
1 Diana’s got energy back (5)
2 Order to a brigade I revoked and
rescinded (9)
3 Islander presenting Wyss’s family with
empty pot? (8,6)
4 Seasoning mainly left out of a
foodstuff (7)
5 Forgives former partner’s swearing
right away (7)
7 Girl, one concealing Ecstasy, is
frightened (5)

9 In summary,
the soldiers surrender (14)

20 A French scoundrel’s right off
the hook (5)

14 Insomniac skins up on fewer
occasions (9)