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Across: 1. One who favours lord hiding umpire (9) 8. Horrifying British Legion with 500 going off (13) 11. Lessens middle of less (4) 12. Endless wish: obstinacy is a battle of them (5) 13. Self-raising prophet (4) 16. No slave, Friday man (7) 17. Wails for years in distress (7) 18. Shrewdly heed a boffin (7) 20. Fugitive from space (7) 21. Father makes an advance (4) 22. Butchers waste from headless foal (5) 23. Slime last letter with fifth (4) 26. Warlike acts by German with it in egg-covers (13) 27. Tangled cord so I use passageways (9) |
Down: 2. Swindle a castle in chess (4) 3. An invention if tonic upset (7) 4. Start of Ruritanian friend, as in the country (7) 5. Jellied perhaps or else fricasseed (4) 6. Astonished by unsightly fat and bets raged wildly (13) 7. What you must be to do this crossword and denude polymer perhaps (13) 9. Personal aids, ragged flesh and the Spanish post-script (9) 10. Prices end laxly when browned (9) 14. Bury me around the bottom of a river (5) 15. Slap a sailing vessel (5) 19. Vandal of French fronter (7) 20. Ale sped roughly passed (7) 24. In the primordial soup as well (4) 25. Agitate in prison (4) |