Otago Daily Times

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS 1. Yes: fat could spell out security (6)

4. Make Stan dash round with smoker’s accessory (3-5) 9. Fliers I’m near converting (6)

10. Managing not to meet diva, go in another way (9)

12. Secure one against change of mind in fey way (9)

13. Sort of note an easy elegance of manner (5)

14. He shows how a monster trod about (12)

18. Re-echoes from rear best: veer round to it (12)

21. 7 in Africa in book a pirate wrote (5)

22. Fact of being either ingenious or ingenuous (9)

24. Meet at a point to study the roadside (8)

25. Dog might have a sulk with one (6)

26. Government department entered by clergymen (8)

27. Goes backwards like a ship as one of 1 Down appears (6) DOWN 1. Could be raids made to the South by marine fliers (8)

2. Gas given off by coal if damper is adjusted (8)

3. Public bath has them right inside (5)

5. Green vegetable gave baby a cos to play with (5,7)

6. Doing almost worse with this sort of entrance (5-4)

7. Get lama in a muddle with llama, say (6)

8. An Australian wielder of the spade (6)

11. Ref, telling it, shakes the pinkie (6,6)

15. Poverty being seen, dines out (9)

16. Position one takes with diet, taut as it may be (8)

17. One of ancient empire might say rain’s wrong (8)

19. Sergeant, say, sees moon come up round North Carolina (6) 20. Can have a no from the French big guns (6)

23. Gets close to the answer abandoned by the West (5)

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