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Finished, but I don't understand how 25 works.

A and O separately inserted into French President

Thank you ChrisE. Gosh, that's laboured!

Hi David,

25a - A + single letter "doughnut" inside (but not together/separately) 6 letter "Gallic bigwig" (politician) (by amazing coincidence, while I write this, I'm currently listening to the wife of another Gallic bigwig singing The Winner Takes it All)

9a) I think the solution involves a three letter airport code for a city in the North of England.

My bad. The airport code is not as I expected.

mikey
that leaves out the "backing". i think the great ??? is intended.

Struggled with this and had to use a missing letters solver several times.

I'm still missing 1A and 1D though, I have ??U?S?I? and ??N?I?, are those crossers right?

1D. is. ?U??S?I?

your u in 1a is wrong - wrong soldiers (though a valid answer)