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1 Send out SOS re flowers for Saint Valentine’s Day (5) 4 Cut short a card game for four (7) 8 Shake with fear when Bert and Mel get annoyed (7) 9 It’s the market price, VAT added – London’s unusually expensive initially (5) 10 Sylvester never reveals when it’s severe or austere (5) 11 A coloured pencil? Ray must be involved in the con (6) 14 It helped to make the town upset – admit to your guilt (3,2) 16 Some grasp or throw in this athletic activity (5) 18 Leave when Ed comes back with a role in the play (6) 21 Drink included in a meal, at teatime (5) 24 Try some of the meat indoors – don’t dine out (3,2) 25 One guy who won’t take advice? No, everyone, we hear (4-3) 26 Notes from José Carreras and Placido Domingo, say (7) 27 A brazen minx who’s terribly shy around us (5) 1 Wee Nabisco crackers in a posh Piccadilly hotel (4) 2 Failed to get up on time from lazy Len’s pit (5,2) 3 Recover after a boozy night out – a sore pub disorder (5,2) 4 Copied part of the department’s set up (4) 5 I’ve popped into the Rolls-Royce briefly, to go to the Forth, for instance (5) 6 A child’s toy – it’s Edinburgh’s famous sheep (5) 7 A tiny tree must change and develop forever and ever (8) 12 A serpent is spotted when looking up the Psalms (3) 13 Loss of nerve with frozen tootsies (4,4) 15 Sail up part of the Danube with Ms McLean of River City (3) 16 Oh! Alec’s swimming in Long or Linnhe perhaps (3,4) 17 The lout was running around with the Wild West criminals (7) 19 This mountaineer’s spike has no tip when climbing (5) 20 The housekeeper, Angela, has a large cooker (5) 22 Hits the slopes after a sneaky kiss (4) 23 Not entirely unemployed? It’s a cunning plan (4)