guardian 24559

[yellow11]

have done both times/telegraphs and fts so now brain dead-please help
26a while school is on,lines in a circle are forming union with a close relative or the opposite 13
???????R???N?
20 settled accounts when prepared to fight 7,2 ?/up
16d fantasy sort of music transmitted by choirs,say 4,5
P???/????? play/
21d mythical pope?5
thanks

[Bogtrotter]

20a Squared up
21d Urban (urban myths/Pope Urban)

[yellow11]

now have 16d

[yellow11]

also have 26a

[djmelancourt]

So what is the answer to 26A?

I have these letters:

?N?E?M?R?E?N?

These letters come from URBAN, ALTERNATE, PIPE DREAM, PAPER, DOYLE, and DEVIL's OWN.

[kettledrum]

intermarrying ...... in term + ry (railway) in 'a ring'