Across
Creator with intelligence makes a bird (6)
Yak, 5 14 reveals (6)
Judge leads foxhunt regularly, state protection? (6)
Svelte Irish nurses start to eat more like slugs? (7)
Study rat first to explain pattern on book's cover (8)
Friend's crossing duck hybrids (6)
Skate, mostly like flounders, get promoted at the bar (4,4)
Marvellous seeing a hundred and one whales rolling (5)
18a
(and 18 Across) 5 that's pretty insane, a cuckoo (5,8)
See 17 Across
A king snake looped around naturalist (6)
Tailless biped breathes deep, pressure for this weapon? (8)
Go berserk quietly after sheep turn grey (7)
26a
(and 26 Across) 5 14's 8 and one of 8 14 5's: jigger? (6,6)
See 25 Across
Badger in road lay down (6)
Down
Walk goes so badly with dog upset? (5-4)
Cook tuna mostly over ring (5)
Poet raised hare-brained daughter in middle of city (8)
Monster clam in angler's nets, put back (6)
Fish ain't terribly bright (9)
Towelling front half of water tortoise dry, finally (5)
14 5 buzzing in quiz (8,3)
Perhaps Auntie's broadcast was on mink (9)
I sound like a cat climbing over tin houses, breaking in (9)
Condensate on shellfish that kills parasites (8)
French article about bats not tidied up yet (6)
Sloth the German found upside down shown on telly (5)
Penny decapitated otter for fur coat (5)
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