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1 Slow the car – it’s a holiday, we hear (5) 4 Blast a bugle! I’m in the land of the EU headquarters (7) 8 Snitches on Bart? Yes, sneakily (7) 9 Brief physical training after Ada? Get used to it! (5) 10 Liam even cut back an internet message (5) 11 In a wee company with me for investment revenue (6) 14 Complicated algebra? Start tricky equations initially in a Hindu class! (5) 16 Make nasty remarks when the pines are chopped up (5) 18 We hear there’s no alternative to the coffee – start the golf game (3,3) 21 A man leaves Uncle Sam to set the crossword posers (5) 24 Michael, Uriel, or wonderful Clarence Odbody (5) 25 Cooking, Geoff? No, it’s turned sour or rancid (4,3) 26 Wee Desmond gets the smallest Euro coin – it’s the downward slope (7) 27 A type of tree for the tribal leader (5) 1 Big and bouncing? Yes, primarily a bundle of joy (4) 2 Steam it, in other words, now and again – not always (2,5) 3 Save up? I’ve got to be shifty and hard to pin down (7) 4 and 22 Down Work really, really hard to tug tubas around (or silly tutu bags) (4,1,3) 5 Lea is supported by the Royal Navy briefly to gain knowledge (5) 6 Partly paid a housekeeper in an American state (5) 7 It’s a special duet term – mumbled in a low, unclear voice (8) 12 Somewhat unconventional and a bit inconsiderate? This is a scam (3) 13 It’s Dot’s clan gathering in the Land o’ Cakes… (8) 15 …and, in addition, to the centre of Ardrossan (3) 16 It’s a total hush since surrounding the French (7) 17 Awful colic, Ed? Yes, and chilled through (3-4) 19 Borders with roses, e.g. delicately pruned back (5) 20 Trumped up, like Donald’s fake news – a self deception! (5) 22 See 4 Down 23 Some RAF aircraft turn up miles away (4)