CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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Across

1. Sharp note wavered in Palladium, I gathered (7) 5. Sturdy coach enveloped by corrosion (6)

9. Get off at Crewe, say, having run into delay (7) 10. Innocent young woman, sincere, popular at the start (7)

11. To some extent borrowers are in debt (3)

12. Political philosophy which chimes somehow with Republican (11)

13. What helps to make Gurkha kitbags? (5)

14. Organise do for a rep? It’s what subs do (9)

16. Like scampi made from nameless predefined ingredients (4-5)

17. Cancel names in gold leaf originally (5)

19. One doubting international cooperation upset Cicero somehow (11) 22. Top-class navy vessel (3) 23. Spanish invader’s flashy adornment (7)

24. Place in routine gets award at Badminton (7) 26. Ship about to catch cutters (6)

27. Affluent leader of men, like gutted Cyclops? (7)

Down

1. Secure secretary left in harbour (7) 2. Simultaneously cook in steam bath here (2,3,4,6) 3. Leaves parent occasionally heading north (3) 4. Party girl turns up lady’s address in Rome (5)

5. Artist at home could upset water supplier (4,5) 6. Blue plant pest, extremely large (5)

7. Firm in Silicon Glen maybe insures hard work (7,8) 8. Two stretches of water considered (6)

12. Article about independent female burglar (5) 14. Invaluable diamonds left in cupboard (9)

15. Money in Paris once smuggled into football club (5)

16. Elegant European liner kept in sort of dock (6) 18. Source of oil (diesel) distributed around north (7)

20. Foreign character is rejected at stormy

AGM (5)

21. President endlessly defends his first drone (5) 25. Poles conceal individual wrongdoing (3)