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6 A tool or machine with a rotating tip used for making holes (5)

7 1974 album by German band Kraftwerk, from which the title track was a UK hit (8)

10 Series of satellites launched by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s (7)

11 Move in which a bike or motorcycle is ridden with its front part raised (7)

12 Sophie, cookery writer

born in 1959 (7)

13 A device intended to attract attention or publicity (7)

14 Affected by an extreme tendency to fall asleep (11)

19 An extensive or

impressive collection (7) 21 Uma, actress who starred in the Kill

Bill films (7)

23 Stephen, presenter of the 2023 revival of TV game show Deal Or No Deal (7)

25 Located within a

retail outlet (2-5)

26 ____ Jesus, street preacher played by Benjamin Zephaniah in Peaky Blinders (8)

27 Cleo, English jazz singer who was married to composer John Dankworth (5)

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1 Process of making a

liquid weaker (8)

2 ____ Kinnock, late former MEP who was the wife of Labour leader Neil (6)

3 Roman general who was the lover of Egyptian queen Cleopatra (4,6)

4 Goulash and gumbo are

examples of this type of dish (4) 5 ____ con carne, spicy dish of minced meat that originated in Mexico (6)

6 ____ flaw, a fault in something that occurs usually in its making (6)

8 A small cardboard item for resting glasses in a bar or pub (4,3)

9 Arkady, fictional Russian investigator created by writer Martin Cruz Smith (5)

13 An evening in which members of an institution are allowed to bring others (5,5)

15 Full or well stocked (7)

16 Asian country whose rivers include the Mekong and Tonle Sap (8)

17 The froth found on

sea waves (5)

18 An audible expiration whose technical name is a sternutation (6)

20 Ryan, New Zealand former central defender who played for Blackburn Rovers FC (6)

22 Patron saint of Catholic

students and teachers (6)

24 ____ in the coffin, expression meaning ‘final factor in a downfall’ (4)