CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Man Utd’s suspect clearance specialist? (7) 5 Bury note distributed by doctor (6) 9 Discombobulate runner, veering somewhat (7) 10 Implement revised

iTunes on laptop (7) 11 Monarch cut members

of family (3) 12 Unique aroma follows old boy on the way out (11) 13 Look after railway union’s overtime finally (5) 14 Dish argument involving second part (9) 16 Bank official takes in

rabbi and gipsy (9) 17 Bishop, when in charge, becomes cardinal (5) 19 Such snooty types often feed so eccentrically (6-5) 22 One very disheartened

climber (3) 23 Work with auntie briefly developing succulent (7) 24 U.S. resort’s role in Shakespeare comedy (7) 26 What some do if all but

first of harvest rots (6) 27 Fortune-teller can read this London pickpocket (3,4)

DOWN

1 Dr Livingstone comforted a Parisian, inebriated (7) 2 Big rift in California disrupting RAF’s annual dates (3,7,5) 3 Spoil from mine accumulates randomly at the start (3) 4 Pines for poles to shield river heading north (5) 5 Common weapon in U.S. — it levels the scores (9) 6 Heart of Renfrewshire supports first of troops wearing these? (5) 7 Centre of ice mass excited this graduate (6,2,7) 8 Dress fool when stripped (6) 12 Someone like this gobbles suet regularly (5) 14 Feature of portico ruins a London church externally (9) 15 Bass tucked into European sea plant (5) 16 Needlework display

in Edinburgh (6) 18 Horrible fly and crow alarm people needlessly (3,4) 20 Woman avoids hotel

compound (5) 21 Tobacco tin

exposed (5) 25 Arable area bounded

by arable area (3)

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