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Chris Leyland No. 12

ACROSS

1 Dotty dance? (5) 4 Quit pecks, naughty ballroom activity (9) 9 Bone vaults exposed as R. Ouse is raging (9) 10 Sooty’s Soo say, embraced by Sweep and ‘Arry (5) 11 Member meets love in uncertain situation (5) 12 Blush after trip with end off flag stuck up in Tuileries? (9) 13 Band allowed long curly hair (7) 15 Hotplate cleaning’s latest problem (7) 17 Unknown general’s accepted? Quite (7) 19 Rare metal is cause I’m excited (7) 21 Latin dance master a brilliant star (5,4) 23 Audio version of e.g. Disney’s Blue Danube? (5) 24 Dance band half-cut after a drink (5) 25 See wretched Paris die, Helen finally without hope (2,7) 26 Rent goes down for what may be shed in sad state (4,5) 27 Saucy dance? (5)

DOWN

1 Pleb, right around west he lurks (7) 2 I’m Stan, an opener for Lord’s bats? The opposite (4,3,2) 3 Substantially fatal, a momentous battle (5) 4 Group of five holy books with soft covering (7) 5 Going forth, is taking legal action (7) 6 If ____ Coke, tepid, mostly nasty at first is refreshing... (4,2,3) 7 ...soft drink for dance (5) 8 Repair I botched, it’s plain (7) 14 Loan a sailor maybe to give assistance (4,1,4) 16 Army training place to bore Albert? (5,4) 17 Taxi with rate fiddled for nightclub (7) 18 Spanish sausage, cold cut BBC2 programme shows (7) 19 It’s Hungarian dance as card’s amended (7) 20 Mark captures Suzy’s soaring heart with a Polish dance (7) 22 The French going off to shuffle in SA dance (5) 23 We sting, cut up by final remark? (5)