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ACROSS

1 Solve a Mensa problem in the church minister’s home (5)

4 Algeria destroyed the emblems and symbols of royalty (7)

8 Doesn’t remember to set frog free (7)

9 Is this a calculating snake? (5)

10 A rowdy delivers the wife’s old marriage payment (5)

11 Accountant knocks back a pint and gets a treat for the kitty (6)

14 Lopsided and slanting as London’s botanic gardens (5)

16 Raccoon endlessly upset bedtime drink (5)

18 Hound and harass someone, say, with a stripy burrowing creature (6)

21 Board a bus perhaps and see eye to eye (and ten go all over the place) (3,2)

24 A tasty cocktail extra from Popeye’s oily friend (5)

25 Confused and uncertain about an ulcer (7)

26 Wizard of Oz character travelling to Hydro (7)

27 Not very warm pet returned and upset wee Diana (5)

DOWN

1 Wee Jeff fumed about an old-fashioned hand warmer (4)

2 Ron upset over people in the East Anglian county of The Broads (7)

3 It’s lifted in surprise by the boy we’re training (7)

4 Acting too hastily with an eruption of spots on the skin (4)

5 Going through Edinburgh, an aircraft to an African country (5)

6 Mia’s got to leave ladies’ man carrying a heavy load (5)

7 Little Alastair’s praying it’s an aerosol for the loo perhaps (3,5)

12 A couple from Eastwood (3)

13 Hostility and illfeeling the transfusion service rejected (3,5)

15 Little Alec gets a hospital heart check scan (1,1,1)

16 We see reduction of ship staff with closecropped hairstyle (4,3)

17 A zoomed-in photo of a person – or couples possibly (5-2)

19 Hot gadget for a hairstylist discovered in Airdrie recently (5)

20 Build exciting rural edifice, constructing towers first of all (5)

22 Hectic in the bus yesterday (4)

23 Branded after Ned leaves with Hollywood star Pitt (4)