LONDON TIMES CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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1 Pleasant area in the middle of a club? (5,4)
6 Do this if latest of binges puts on weight? (4) 9 Legendary winger caught by old right back (3) 10 Doing very little is disappointing (3,2,2,4)
11 Born and died in poverty (4) 12 Err with sheep, you say? Honestly! (8,2)
14 What I’ve done with posh Penny at uni is shrewd (5-2) 15 A wish to cook up most of cheek and tongue (7) 17 National serial circulated around island (7) 19 A couple of fish and an unripe apple (7) 20 Watch closely as backsliding southern club comes in last (4,4,2)
22 Two chaps having a laugh (2-2)
24 Call for nice tea sets to be reordered (11) 25 A pint is suitable for the circumstances (3) 26 Foreign agent protects Liberal in Split (4)
27 Feel tyres must be changed for wet sort of race (9) Down
1 Youths do this in the Poultry Liberation Front? (6,8) 2 Accounting department an old inspector reported (9) 3 Flipping insect bite (4)
4 A break from the wheel of vessel rolling by stormy spit (3,4)
5 If we’ve gone for tails, they should really go on heads (3,4) 6 Ceremonial soldiers’ bulletproof socks? (10)
7 Closed down, broken by November 1st crash (5) 8 A place for people to give hoods away in the mall? (8,6) 13 With abandon, derides a TV broadcast (10) 16 I can go wrong without a YMCA travel guide (9)
18 New cheese boards provided for those lacking time? (2,5) 19 Everyday duty imbued with a large and stately air (7) 21 Cap size for a well-rounded individual, we hear (5) 23 Dog’s dinner for setter and sheepdogs with no stuffing in it? (4)