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1 The trainee policeman acted nervously (5) 4 Like a current affairs TV programme about troubled coal pit (7) 8 Some domestic rabbits are grumpy (7) 9 A book of maps for the 1,600-mile mountain range in north-west Africa (5) 10 It’s a narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland, Colin (5) 11 A hornet is flying around the Queen’s special chair (6) 14 Some nag Robert about this musical instrument (5) 16 Keep looking at a flight of steps, so to speak (5) 18 It’s the schedule of charges if raft gets damaged (6) 21 The Spanish take Gordon’s spirit to a town in Moray (5) 24 Hood is stealin’ by the sound of it – a bird maybe (5) 25 A dancing child, i.e. in a Scottish folk music gathering (7) 26 A number of Audis turbocharged to annoy and interrupt (7) 27 Encourage Humpty Dumpty to fall? (3,2) 1 Pull back the hammer of a gun to shoot an adult male chicken (4) 2 Peddling illegal drugs and handing out cards (7) 3 Someone from the Dalai Lama’s homeland will have a tan all over I bet (7) 4 Where you can see art inside Calcutta temples (4) 5 A fuzzy nectarinelike fruit that’s kind of cheap (5) 6 The CEO takes two learners in to see a musical instrument (5) 7 Somehow re-enlist an attentive person in the audience (8) 12 Nonsense and rubbish that’s partially torn up (3) 13 Exhausted like man’s best friend – or an awfully odd tiger (3-5) 15 Sam leaves mixed salami for the boxer (3) 16 A realist flies the Scottish flag (7) 17 Getting out of bed for an insurrection or rebellion apparently (7) 19 Rankin’s cop is seen inside a Perthshire bus (5) 20 A melted cheese dip is found to be terribly messy (5) 22 Sign of healing for the strike blackleg (4) 23 Very slim and slender in the bath, I noticed (4)