GUARDIAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Old master seeing specialist after op, by the sound of it? (6) 4 Bag drink, rest bottled (4,2) 9 One’s charged a lot of money (4) 10 Instrument sounded note, one essential to function (3,7) 11 Business in this place, form a close association (6) 12 Request breakfast, record sandwiches (8) 13 Discharge engineers rescued by division (9) 15,23 Knock splitting standard tropical fruit (4,5) 16 Information may be written on this server (4) 17 Late news, crush on street (4,5) 21 Seat rider adjusted before (8) 22,26 Source of information generating anger with Chinese? (6,6) 24 Conscious: put in prison, might you say? (10) 25,2 Might one be in pub for drinking round o’ lager, primarily? (4,5) 26 See 22 27 See 3

DOWN

1 Climbing plant collected by book group that’s very small (7) 2 See 25 3,27 From here may come classic evidence cooker has never been cleaned, reportedly? (7,6) 5 Number unknown, figure in stands (6) 6 Two girls discussed something found in pants, for example (9) 7 Dog lead (7) 8 General directive had yet to be created from this? (5,2,3,3) 14 Concerned with check holding trial up, heading for gaol (9) 16 Go before powers, primarily, fade away (7) 18 Fix case of ulcer, as chemist (7) 19 Endlessly extract wine that’s sweet (7) 20 River runs into all the seas? (6) 23 See 15