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1 Thwarts someone’s plans maybe – is Flo worried? (5) 4 Driving Len’s car round to see horsemen carrying spears (7) 8 Of the same family yet oddly altered (7) 9 Ate in the middle of the showroom? You’ll need a drink (5) 10 Taking advantage of a number of us in general (5) 11 An Ayr NCO has broken the child’s coloured pencil (6) 14 Yours truly took the CID back to see the surgeon (5) 16 On your feet! This is where the supporters sit (5) 18 The anxiety and agony when Tess Sr goes astray (6) 21 Frank Sinatra’s daughter in a city east of Paris (5) 24 The building in Hugh Laurie’s top American series (5) 25 A female sheep in the dust finds the straight direction for American wagons (3,4) 26 Find a place of entertainment – at three possibly (7) 27 Sawdust? Yes, fifty per cent is needing a good clean (5) 1 Get a Fiesta or Focus, say, in Crieff or Dunkeld (4) 2 Sadly sullied? Yes, and treated in a dreadful way (3-4) 3 It’s profoundly evil – Ian’s cat is shuddering (7) 4 Some crocodiles come up to the outside swimming pool (4) 5 A few of the Roman ewers are of a more modern vintage (5) 6 A group of children trying to find admission to a building (5) 7 See André excitedly sing a romantic song under a balcony (8) 12 Leonardo’s work owned by Bonaparte (3) 13 Massively successful? Ah, Smith’s extraordinary (5-3) 15 Eric loses a hundred and returns in anger (3) 16 Found on a beach – a seed we cooked (7) 17 Bow-and-arrow soldiers for a popular radio series (7) 19 Get out of bed – or Sue will go bananas (5) 20 You get this if you work hard recycling waste (5) 22 No longer working in Fairfield – Irene’s upset (4) 23 Don’t leave – take a helping of pasta, Yvonne (4)