Crossword

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Across

6 They may hold records for

a song (7) 7 Lowest deck cut off

by soldiers (5) 9 Food giving son a turn? (4) 10 Conventional image of character attached to hi-fi? (10) 11 Leave queen with no name

floundering in tub (8) 13 Everything that is dead

must be linked (6) 15 Wine found in aniseed

flavoured drink? (4) 17 Commando’s gamble

protecting Her Majesty (5) 18 Press knock drink back with

humour at first (4) 19 Quartet going missing from

celebration of the flesh (6) 20 Fundamental changes due

to fish found in drinks (5-3) 23 Deal perhaps with person

kissing flyer (10) 26 Discover courage is

short (4) 27 Gardening tool seen around American orangery for example (5) 28 Japanese object, being unusually tense about our nation (7)

Down

1 Commitment shown by

engineers with answer (10) 2 Saves Talmud, incorporating other holy scriptures (6) 3 Man perhaps lives life on

the outside (4) 4 Divine female escort excited

about area (8) 5 Definite line crossed by

corporate excess (4) 6 Room service may follow

endless spa (5) 8 Power increases will protect

favourite tools (7) 12 Inexperienced workers and

sailors in crowd, mostly (5) 14 Power invested in strange herculean Irish legendary character (10) 16 Area of water loaches

destroyed (3,4) 17 Person convinced of the

spread of evil in drink (8) 21 A & E charge to provide

oxygen (6) 22 Organisation spies

intermittently service (5) 24 Source of danger with

blanket medicine (4) 25 Skye regularly imports

popular cattle (4)