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ACROSS

1 Use the hero’s piece of gym equipment

(5)

4 Take more than one card if flying to a Welsh city (7) 8 Switch off when Di’s

competent (7)

9 Get a wee pancake

in a Dublin inn (5) 10 The CA and US envoy at first discover the reason for a demo (5)

11 Was back after a lively dance? That’s a puzzle (6)

14 Turned up shy and unpleasantly ambitious (5) 16 Overly sentimental about the chip shop peas (5)

18 Not working 24-hour period? It’s when nothing goes right (3,3)

21 Shock from a guy’s

car engine (5) 24 The A1 primary colour is hung outside to dry (5) 25 A short, obtuse lesson is serving no purpose (7)

26 They say I let go of medicine from the optician (3,4)

27 He’ll ring to say “Bonjour” in English (5)

DOWN

1 Listen, keep out of sight! It’s Jekyll’s evil half (4)

2 Naughty children damaged Al’s cars (7)

3 Bubbly Bess may see the Ambassador’s place (7) 4 Wooden sticks used

in barbecues (4) 5 Arab bigwig enter

tains a clergyman (5) 6 NCO leaves the invoices for climbing plants (5) 7 Pleasant routes found on the golf course (8)

12 A few youngsters turned up to see an African antelope (3) 13 Amazingly adept and out to become fully informed and modern (2,2,4) 15 The brick carrier is

slightly shoddy (3) 16 Order a cab with them to see the Scottish play (7)

17 A ruler’s bizarre, like a Salvador Dali artwork (7)

19 This ludicrous, funny play is set in a Forfar centre (5) 20 Dad loses head over retired Red, a snake in the grass (5)

22 A wisecrack on seeing items of the equipment (4) 23 Aggressive, stupid brutes object initially to a court measure (1,1,1,1)