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ACROSS 1 Enthusiast is in charge of capturing male waterfowl (11) 9 Write piece about island seabird (7) 10 Duck’s trouble after a certain amount of beer (7) 11 Parched, quit taking run (5) 12 Union gets answer for waterfowl (9) 13 Expansive broadcast about green duck (7) 14 Escorts swimming ducks (7) 16 Lay down and did some more modelling? (7) 19 Blasts of wind carrying in seabirds (7)

21 Duck Soup initially engrossed libertine (9) 23 Negative voter sanctions recesses (5)

25 Love northern band of three going around a province (7) 26 City on Lake Michigan stylish in the past (7)

27 In a scene made over, saw waterfowl (6,5) DOWN

1 Foundation maintaining one park for bird or human (5) 2 Imagined devotee rolling dice (7)

3 Strip behind the French cleaning woman? (9)

4 Solo FBI agent’s word game (7) 5 Has ambitions as afterthought, admitting wrath (7)

6 Polar resident lodged in sunless Antarctic (5) 7 Tale about equine and canine on TV (6)

8 Full catalogues including alternative plant sellers (8) 13 Show pork going bad in factory (8) 15 Unusually weak finale hurting (9) 17 Quick rice primarily covered with pasta sauce (6) 18 Continue following doctor, a cavalry member (7) 19 Patched outside opening of raincoat having holes (7) 20 Cut off interstate, consequently behind schedule (7) 22 Greek order in Greenland or Iceland (5)

24 Fortify coastal area (5)