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1 Not quite right for an unmarried woman, apparently (5) 4 Ted isn’t anxious about this driller and filler (7) 8 Cook chips perhaps? It’s hard to fathom with former QI host Stephen (4-3) 9 Lit up flickering bulb (5) 10 Perhaps it’s my Abe in disguise (5) 11 In a special shop to get the wedding album pictures (6) 14 Awfully underhand dealings? Insist there’s initially an inspection of the books (5) 16 We hear it’s a £10 note for the male singer (5) 18 Cuts back dried plums (6) 21 A basil and pine nut sauce for a nuisance with nothing (5) 24 A foolish person involved in the Lotto? I dived back! (5) 25 Give a small orchestra weapons – and a swimming aid (7) 26 A precious stone for a mere lad? Very strange (7) 27 Slightly burn a batch of sausages in Germany (5) 1 The first of the Italians took Ada round to see Verdi’s Egyptian opera (4) 2 Terribly clean? I’d head for a Nordic Island country (7) 3 A feast? Be prepared, it’s a sure thing (4,3) 4 Sounds like a stunned or bewildered condition for 24-hour periods (4) 5 A little whatnot chipped? Just a nick (5) 6 Find the small bay and a wee hotel nightcap? Uplifting! (5) 7 It’s an ornamental wall hanging, yet parts are damaged (8) 12 Buy now, pay later – get some trestlework set up (3) 13 Scouts gather round it – an epic farm construction (8) 15 Mr McShane the actor lives in California nowadays (3) 16 Mother’s soup in the vacuum flask (7) 17 The overall profit from a trawlerman’s catch? (3,4) 19 Get together for the tune I composed (5) 20 A bonus for a minor actor in the crowd scenes (5) 22 A sudden short attack from a Samurai? Deadly… (4) 23 …got the upper hand finally – we heard advancing Japanese (4)