Across 4 Sweet
aromatic grape used for raisins and wine (8)
8 Oblong cream puff (6)
9 Tincture of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient
(8)
10 Californian city and naval base (3,5)
11 Sloped annex on house (4-2)
12 1815 battle and London terminus (8)
13 One of the bony segments of the spinal column (8)
16 Large marsupial (8)
19 Surname, originally the third name of a Roman (8)
21 Gilbert and Sullivan work subtitled The Town of Titipu (6)
23 "Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone ---" [Aphra Behn] (8)
24 Plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane
parallel to an element of the curve (8)
25 Colourless, amorphous bitter substance obtained from vegetable matter and
used in dyes and wine-making (6)
26 Wood hyacinth (8)
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Down 1 A
member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks (alt spelling) (7)
2 Where a rider stores things (9)
3 Writer of 1984 (6)
4 Revolutionary's incendiary bomb (7,8)
5 A room for rough kitchen work (8)
6 Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World (5)
7 Imaginary line dividing the world into two hemispheres (7)
14 Gland that puts secretions into the blood (9)
15 Dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar used as a
preservative for wood (8)
17 A lady's maid (7)
18 Member of the a nomadic tribe of Arabs (7)
20 Egg or sperm cell (6)
22 Love feast (5)
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