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This week’s crossword is a cryptic one, and, in addition, it has an unusual shape.

Eightsome Reels by Chalicea

Each numbered square in the diagram is surrounded by eight letters. All clues lead to answers of eight letters, and these are to be entered in the squares around the appropriate numbers, clockwise or anticlockwise. Solvers must determine where each word begins and the direction in which to go. The twelve unchecked corner letters could give HAG LOB A CABER

1  Apparatus for carbonating water renovated ages gone

2  Adherents of Calvinistic theology and International city dwellers

3  National opinion polls accepting alternative vote and almost all marine activities cut short

4  Sun god mostly gets universal directions for points in orbits furthest from the moon

5  Gets on a train (Switzerland – not Turkey!) and holds fast

6  Praising abnormally and aiming for high things

7 Eating light meals as Kings can in a fashion

8  Tropical waterfowls frolicking in places

9  Remodelled Basel spa is tolerable

10 Sins include a lot of eager desire for fruity ring-shaped cakes

11 Leaving work and going to bed

12  Kings act treacherously, arranging the cards for cheating

13  Acted lie about becoming dainty

14  Soft wood having enough strength is fit to be distributed

15  Relating to a grandparent returning twice in a kind of skirt worn in Polynesia (hyphened)

16  Narrating and unfortunately altering

17  Making sudden involuntary movements and driving an animal from its lair

18  I treated distractedly and repeated

19  Details I rearranged for an impractical person

20  Knight having a devil may care attitude

21  Sedative lab returns containing argon, boron, iodine and tritium

22  Having power of decision in complicated bar trial

23  Rue later in disorder relating to a urinary duct

24  Interims by arrangement for a diplomatic representative of a government

25  More intellectual bit of blather in front of a Washington State volcanic mountain

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