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ACROSS

1 Some surreal ices for a person in Wonderland (5)

4 Got to a destination after a driver went astray (7)

8 Rob sits around in these small French eateries (7)

9 Get a celebrity poster from a shop in Uphall (3-2) 10 Bachelor of Arts takes article to wash in a tub (5)

11 Sadly, old leader tires, looking for folk who landed us with Boris and Truss (6) 14 Using a small craft, O’Neill sees Burns’ “sweet” river (5) 16 Add up with a Euro

pean “earl” (5)

18 A political party? Yes, pregnant women go into it (6) 21 Dapper like a mem

ber of the SNP? (5) 24 Charles’s ancient music for coronation is a short church anthem (5)

25 A French accord inside the Green tent. Eco-friendly (7) 26 English style pale ales and Angostura (7)

27 A legal addition to a document for a guy on a horse (5)

DOWN

1 Returned from Casablanca for Alex Salmond’s party (4) 2 A quick coffee?

Just use what’s in Nat’s tin (7)

3 A type of fired clay ware that comes from Teheran… (7) 4 …and, in addition, if a few from Marco’s land turn up (4) 5 Queen returned with professional briefly to view imitation (5) 6

Villa in Naples? Could it initially be where Leonardo was brought up? (5) 7 Depot is prepared to make the down payments (8)

12 A famous carnival

city in Ontario (3) 13 Chartered accountant has to take Bacall north – phone for a taxi (4,1,3) 15 Knots-and-crosses

flavour enhancer (3) 16 A loud disturbance taking a latte in an empty chamber (7) 17 Duet nun gets upset

if it’s out of key (7) 19 Blow one’s trumpet when taking a boat round the south (5) 20 Loosen the knot in a UN man’s neckware (5)

22 Fast planes for West

Side Story gang (4) 23 Twelve months in the artillery – ear-splitting! (4)