The Northern Advocate

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS 1. Small amount of time needed to cook steak – very small! '(6) 4. Put in right order for a vegetable (6)

9. Repair work in grand disarray (7)

10. Manage not to encounter a wrinkle (5)

11. Where wooden horse was a model, right to be included (4) 12. Manage to put up with Ursa? (4)

13. Every establishm­ent can provide one sort of whisky (3) 15. Try to find and understand the end of the book (4)

16. Ring Winnie back (4)

19. I am, thou painting (3)

21. Be careful of intake where national assembly's concerned (4) 22. State of emotions returned at the last trump (4) 24. American dual-decapitati­on, as one would expect (5) 25. Gold and silver in the middle of target no one returns to (7) 26. Dig up a ripe smell in the river (6)

27. Quite a feast if you put butter on it! (6) DOWN

1. Forced to see how long it is if not off the peg (4,2,7)

2. You French will have half a meal to start with if edgy (7)

3. Go after what sounds like a story (4)

5. Boxer gets on top of the weaker contestant, it seems (8)

6. Rain swirling round Danish capital at its lowest point (5)

7. Pure but non-u, decided it was settled in advance (13)

8. Thus get around work unit turning up such monsters (5)

14. It swings from a nude in a plum situation (8)

17. Sip more of a cocktail with hope for the future (7)

18. Race for one's hat or get the boot (5)

20. What's accurate might hurt tip-top version (5)

23. Friends given over to a form of chastiseme­nt (4)

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