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ACROSS

1 Badly cooked fries? Yes, they often get put out (5) 4 Turns red with embarrassment when lost at first in the bushes (7) 8 A large child for a whiner who behaves childishly (3,4) 9 Here’s the landlord now, nervously cutting back (5) 10 Double agents seldom return without a bit of dosh (5) 11 Run naked in a public place to make Kate Sr annoyed (6) 14 Choose some of Aristotle’s sayings for an English composition (5) 16 It’s the vacuum cleaner that’s used in a messy Synod (5) 18 Stressed out and jittery at the brink of a cliff? (2,4) 21 Unbearably slow? Urquhart’s always late initially – it’s typical (5) 24 Urge onwards – it makes an MP lie (5) 25 Like a leopard? That’s poor Dot’s pet (7) 26 Stays if arranging to fulfil the requirements (7) 27 Rob’s leaving the observers to start a tennis game (5)

DOWN

1 The FBI’s ludicrous little lies (4) 2 Reg and I join son going round areas of the country (7) 3 Unpaid hard work or drudgery? Valery’s disgruntled (7) 4 Pays the price for being terribly busy (4) 5 An old German sub is about to turn (1-4) 6 Sounds like chickens, from this day on, therefore (5) 7 Stunning to look at and standing on the picket line (8) 12 Mr Winstone the actor is reversing out of the churchyard (3) 13 Take a cab, Rosie, round to the musical keep-fit class (8) 15 Help with a walking stick, for example (3) 16 Mr Lynam… stop upsetting the tyrants (7) 17 Throw randomly within the homeless cat territory (7) 19 Someone who is living abroad with a former girlfriend, Pat (5) 20 We hear it’s Mr Brandreth, pointing out Edinburgh’s High Kirk saint (5) 22 Catch a glimpse of a group of snobby pseuds making a comeback (4) 23 Lied about just sitting around (4)