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ACROSS

1 Little Roberto’s car takes us to a Puccini opera (5)

4 Sly Ron’s off to Midlothian’s Da Vinci Code chapel (7)

8 A senior Royal in a Scottish Fort town (7)

9 A swirling tango in a South Pacific kingdom (5)

10 Sail around the

north with a pest (5) 11 Martin travelled to a county in Northern Ireland (6)

14 A portion of pie, Celia? Or a Scottish sandwich? (5) 16 Fritters away time with baguettes and bloomers perhaps (5)

18 Feel sorry about song of grief? Yes, before PM in Lent (6) 21 A phantom circles

the globe (5) 24 It’s an outdoor eating place and Pat and I had duck (5) 25 Alvin M.A. crashed the postal delivery vehicle (4,3)

26 Some of the least endearing characters in the Queen Vic area (4,3) 27 An Italian holiday lake for the Dublin police (5)

DOWN

1 Emergency car journeys – in twos, unfortunately (4) 2 Stunned response since surrounding the French (7)

3 A nine is written squiggly – that’s really stupid (7) 4 Pram gets damaged in a sloping walkway (4)

5 Didn’t go out to take a seat in this silky material (5) 6 Cruise ship in the

bin? (5)

7 A narrow escape close to a female teacher (4,4)

12 A pair of garment

workers (3)

13 A pal and I peep sneakily to see what’s for dessert (5,3)

15 He supported Cuba’s leader and revolutionary Guevara (3) 16 Bathroom ruler? Just browsing, not buying (7)

17 Lover followed Alan briefly? Yes, it’s totally finished (3,4) 19 Various teams have

chess victories (5) 20 Some of the posse soon returned with a Wild West killer (5) 22 Surround by half

sized pyramids (4) 23 Rock group leaves a bandanna for a Frozen princess (4)