1 Cryptic crossword

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION Across:

1 Captain, 5 Slough, 9 Drake, 10 Translate, 11 Constable, 12 Rouse, 13 Livid, 15 Orchestra, 17 Purchaser, 19 Dodge, 21 Oscar, 22 Adeptness, 24 Economist, 25 Hydra, 26 Astray, 27 Reserve.

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1 Codicil, 2 Plain, 3 Averted, 4 Notebooks, 5 Stake, 6 Observe, 7 Graduated, 8 Peseta, 14 Veracious, 16 Carpenter, 17 Propel, 18 Harbour, 19 Ditches, 20 Enslave, 22 Amity, 23 Elder.

African republic destroyed regalia (7) Attribute to a writer (7)

Front of building not what it appears to Understand note is on top of file (5) be? (6) This goes up and down and round and

round (7)

Boat requires skill (5)

St Michael's beaten up old metal workDog-end Edward cut short (9) er (9)

I'm receiving treatment for being restOriginal tree on street (5) less (9) Ship's mat? (7)

Journey to the east is rubbish (5) Daughter leads union in time-wasting Clean air out there (5) action (9)

Stick notice in this place (6) Means of protection in case urn breaks

Sleep for a long time in the brae, (9) strangely (9)

Learner one castigates but lets go (9) Deferred use charged externally (9) Part of the seventeenth occasion (5) Copper embraced by missing stripper Dog's run into wheel I conclude (5) (6)

Incredulous of dodgy Celtic spa (9) Clothes appearing from exotic minaret

(7)

Theatre worker curiously hasn't aged

Passage in former bit of land (7)

(9)

Bank staff who give away secrets? (7) Open a new page (5) Turn taps with energy and create a flood Get one's goat a weed (6) (5)

Abandons the trenches (7) 23 Train or bus (5)

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