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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. I’d come round to the physician (6)

4. Has bribe made it even more mean? (8)

9. You finally learn about what’s illusory (6)

10. One forsaken when the players weren’t at home (8)

12. Pene or lope, in short, for two farthings (9)

13. Going in to dinner, Vegan shows audacity (5)

14. Lack of skill in MEP I connect the East with (12)

18. With reciprocal relation in letter, read about it (12)

21. Unseemly display of heated feelings in a bit of play (5) 22. It’s ladies that may be impractical people (9)

24. It may be scholarly, but it’s of no practical importance (8) 25. Ask one hospitably to partake of vine it represents (6) 26. Nation, as it turns to musical composition (8)

27. Borders on over-gesturing in part (6)

Down

1. Give him our company to make René’s hanky (8)

2. A down-and-out may have recited it when about fifty (8)

3. It fastens piece of jewellery with an embrace (5)

5. Sorrowful at weighing a lot, he changed trade (5-7)

6. It’s about plants on a Baltic Exchange (9)

7. Internal one, drawn out (6)

8. Made verses about my herd (6)

11. It could mean it rained before midday (12)

15. Pie ingredient, whether sweet or savoury, has had the chop (9)

16. Hiding away from this, sang about it (8)

17. Yes: do sus Ulysses out! (8)

19. Tries the works of Elia (6)

20. Stay behind to put me up in a shower (6)

23. With which cavalryman charged a sort of corporal (5)

Puzzles

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