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ACROSS

1 Sitting in the club, Len drinks a whisky mix (5)

4 Book a player on the

football bench (7) 8 Reheats? Yes, the rump was cooked (5,2)

9 Little Leila’s errand is to get a tool for the surgeon (5)

10 Tears can make you

gawk (5)

11 We go back and sing about what the tailor is doing (6) 14 What Mick Jagger does with the whisky cubes (5) 16 This thicket of small trees sounds like a silly place for crooks to hide (5)

18 Waiting to buy in an American queue (2,4)

21 Sounds like US song writer Mr Diamond – genuflect! (5) 24 Wee Sybil darted back to improvise a speech (2-3)

25 Use filters to make the sherry flavoured desserts (7)

26 Take me and a batch (freshly baked) to the Scottish play

(7)

27 A group going along an Everest slope takes a break (5)

DOWN

1 Lowers one’s head in greeting with ribbons in the hair (4) 2 A weird variety of art – Eric is unpredictable (7) 3 Absconds from a post perhaps in big sandy places (7) 4 Relapse after Lee leaves and sings like Eminem (4)

5 The Rev lastly came up briefly with a soothing lotion (5) 6 Premier Sunak and the reworked Irish solution (5) 7 Pour out the ale, Gerry, and flavoured tea (4,4)

12 Seek a woman’s affection in Hollywood… (3)

13 …and how lovers stroll – Marina and Mr Amazing! (3,2,3) 15 Shy or modest, we hear, revealing a Japanese carp (3) 16 Annie enters an empty car, being more careful (7) 17 Pa’s got to accept Ella makes seafood dishes (7)

19 Cilla dressed up in a

pastel purple (5) 20 Stately, turning up in

a Chanel bonnet (5) 22 Leave a lasting impression in a Somerset church (4) 23 Employs four from the Rothiemurchus estate (4)