CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Boorish one in Paris snubbed husband over nothing (7) 5 Crack jokes about quiet European capital (6) 9 South Korean leader welcomes new Putin satellite (7) 10 First-class average returns following a complaint (7) 11 Tax returns set to include answer (3) 12 Fellow, one in military formation, covers a cheek (11) 13 Male in RADA possibly staged this (5) 14 Comic performing after group for fashionable cause (9) 16 They spot deserters swapping female for the first time (9) 17 Conclude a number must leave big fire (5) 19 Poor dancers tend to be surpassed (11) 22 Vessel’s lid put back (3) 23 Doctor liaises in region of central Europe (7) 24 Pirate broadcast by county leaders in royal show (7) 26 Border making careful progress (6) 27 Blond guy who collapsed during drunken date (7)

DOWN

1 Peace-keepers rescued the damned? (7) 2 Tried to attract Roman writer with light (5-10) 3 Using radio, bring in vessel (3) 4 Smell around well denoting rot (5) 5 A scheme stops spies finding aircraft (9) 6 Piece of tomahawk somewhere in Nebraska (5) 7 Equine event cancelled? Put start here (7-3,5) 8 Fruit all but hides crown of young tree (6) 12 Foreign coin once smuggled into football club (5) 14 Orange mob dispersed, throwing missile (9) 15 Eccentric pulled up outside institute (5) 16 Hate extremely delicate examination (6) 18 Engineers, exhausted, withdrew (7) 20 American tucked into his fancy Japanese dish (5) 21 Old gold coin, one found in tube (5) 25 Bitter conflict given up (3)

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