The Jerusalem Post

TELEGRAPH CROSSWORDS

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Across

1 Shifty last retailer picked up tableware item (4,6) 6 Pity, for the most part, is pretence (4) 9 Flier confined by ambassador to land (7) 10 Adopt mainly dull and nice changes (7) 12 Traditiona­lists sign after performanc­e by soldiers (13) 14 Observer in privy meeting with broker, half cut (8) 15 Remain absorbed by tatty rug that’s not as attractive (6) 17 Shape a student in accordance with convention (6) 19 Independen­t female protected by friendly source of power (4,4) 21 Government permits spirits, showing such wit (7,6) 24 Calls and records a sale (5,2) 25 Wrong in law to accept soldiers suffering (7) 26 Crush fly (4) 27 Count Basie perhaps vetoed broadcast, needing editor’s opinion (10)

Down

1 Weep, hugging Liberal – a slovenly type (4) 2 Former king with a line on the side (7) 3 Speakers supporting company dance set up as partners in crime (13) 4 Extend stage to include end of apron afterwards (8) 5 Friend from Spain making a motorway turn (5) 7 Entertaine­r who was bound to show unconfined relief (7) 8 Mass with moral sets off destructiv­e situations (10) 11 Put on new clothes with fashionabl­e source and did a turn? (7,6) 13 Set up as prisoner and judged (10) 16 Located audit set for revision (8) 18 Softens, finding the French trapped in leases (7) 20 Draught beer’s top for this idiot (7) 22 One cuts copies up in colour (5) 23 Prison involved in raising of merit systems (4)

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