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Across
1. Deposit a vote for topless returned president (6)
4. Small company representative next to a court (7)
9. Beetle to mark a Beatle’s opener (6)
10. Big stone, precious stone, returned by a lithuanian (8)
12. Bird’s fifty in age after end of decade (5)
13. Tide over, or ail, harmed in 18 perhaps (9)
14. Philanthropist thanks inherent virtue (4)
15. Stealth boat in endless lake (10)
18. Aid CO, flustered in danger, recurring at intervals (10)
19. Eye infection in partly trusty eye (4)
21. Flammable gas turned back French in Ely, after first class time (9)
23. Put foot down to impress (5)
24. Weirdo Len, 22, is outside (8)
25. More sizable load rig bears oddly (6)
26. Team returning consumes a hundred thousand litres – that brings a player down (7)
27. Ride turbulence after gauge lists initially in aircraft (6)
Down
1. Caught a second hunting dog being fed performance drug with audio device (8,6)
2. Heart of ass, the best medicine for butcher (9)
3. Behind in physical education? On the contrary, one gathers (6)
5. Corrupted love after sin swells up too much (12)
6. Drink after climbing mountain, transcending physical desire (8)
7. Short kid, in the middle of going for hot dish (5)
8. Film Norse god containing temper under sway of ales (3,4,7)
11. To approach Leeds in a cracked lefthand carriageway… (8,4)
16. … gets Andre confused and alienated (9)
17. Cross country ride: £25. That’s initially, then about 1000 (4,4)
20. Fool, afflict, attack (6)
22. Text Raymond, bit part actor (5)
[Solutions can now be found here]
Across
1. Rush the starter of spicy dish (6)
5. Attractive measure? A little (8)
9. Measure rough seas and ship (6)
10. Damage church in German capital by drilling (8)
11. Respect for ever, except not entirely (6)
12. Recently deceased returning around here – not of this world (8)
13. Heads of rats are found in dead birds and fishes (7)
14. Is a District Attorney able to reveal country? (6)
16. I hear old aircraft, cut off at the side of the main action (2-4)
18. Quickly looked at good and broken candle (7)
20. Her daughter’s chap is a keeper of cattle (8)
23. South American hare makes key fruit (6)
25. Trade Union’s covered by America’s laws (8)
26. Seamen shaken by medical procedures (6)
27. Crow, with heart of mouse, starving! (8)
28. Views automatic weapon as a child’s recreation (6)
Down
2. Social group in fortress with no port (5)
3. Paddle, darling: I hear relatively small ruminants (3,4)
4. Affirmative: dry tea mixed in the past (9)
5. No, a pear under ham sandwich initially found in picnic baskets (6)
6. Pole, Norse or half Thai? (5)
7. Sarah confused over article relating to desert (7)
8. Comic book guy, upcoming Silver Surfer? (5)
13. Unproductive and indifferent (3)
14. Thatcher’s society’s without style (9)
15. Pete’s partner’s a failure (3)
17. Tomboy and french boys ascending (7)
18. Seeing strange saint in Biblical book (7)
19. Not entirely incompetent struggle (6)
21. A t-rex? Panic – there’s another one! (5)
22. Resort to REM in a subway system (5)
24. Time air rising above a lasso (5)
[Solutions can now be found here]
