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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Weapon provided gratis for the self-employed? (5) 8 Book for the opera (8) 9 Overcharge for an injection (5) 10 Phoney admission of poverty takes in a good man (8) 11 A medical man takes it on the way round (5) 12 Wooden core of a steel mast (3) 16 Creature found wild in Manila (6) 17 Cats in the pound (6) 18 It’s the devil in him perhaps (3) 23 Cat in middle of well is in awkward position (5) 24 It’s very hard to make them stay in order (8) 25 Power of the second eleven (5) 26 To be fair don’t fail the clever ones (8) 27 Clean up in a gamble (5)
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2 One element which may be split into many (8) 3 Proves it’s a trick some companies follow (8) 4 Dull and mild as can be (6) 5 Decline to fall in love (5) 6 A new taste put into words (5) 7 A lot of people are said to be in the store (5) 12 Priest quite absorbed in his religion (3) 13 Clean up a large number at work (3) 14 Do we turn switch to produce current? (8) 15 Get heir a settlement he expects (8) 19 Might number clues in the wrong order (6) 20 At hospital pray possibly for a greedy woman (5) 21 Set against Gaelic language poetry (5) 22 A school principal who looks to the future (5)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Make sore by rubbing (5) 8 Visual imagination (5,3) 9 Unfamiliar (5) 10 Be slow in taking effect (4,4) 11 Disreputable (5) 12 Ask humbly (3) 16 To split (6) 17 Lucky charm (6) 18 Recede (3) 23 Incline (5) 24 Risk taken with little hope (4,4) 25 Wish for eagerly (5) 26 Person doomed to failure (4,4) 27 Nervous excitement (5)
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2 A vile place (8) 3 Time of outstanding success (5,3) 4 An optical illusion (6) 5 Proverb (5) 6 Arrive (3,2) 7 Have a good time (5) 12 Stinging insect (3) 13 Talk incessantly (3) 14 Break free from restraints (3,5) 15 Precisely planned operation (3,5) 19 Bring up for discussion (6) 20 Open space in forest (5) 21 Relative by marriage (2-3) 22 Incidental remark (5)