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Across
- 1. Tax over a drink by stealth (8)
- 5. Metal key to lock workshop returned (6)
- 10. Writer's review on music and God (7)
- 11. Sadly, her lust made her what she is (7)
- 12. Avoid trailer, shunning publicity (5)
- 13. Stress on being drunk and cheerful (9)
- 14. Tale about Mike, Harry, Peter — before long one starts trouble (6,6)
- 18. How to get in from Spain? By being friendly (4-8)
- 21. Skin divers find aunts struggling underwater (9)
- 23. Starts using dairies within a state to make cheese (5)
- 24. Forces euro out in due course, perhaps (7)
- 25. It's too big to take off in most rich nations (7)
- 26. Communist set up will reject member under stress (6)
- 27. I said “sweet, nice looking” (3,5)
Down
- 1. Run on credit, holding a stake (6)
- 2. POP will cheat over money (6)
- 3. Disgusted — initially not allowed to hire a boy (9)
- 4. Escorts get money and a flower (9,5)
- 6. Bird's a bloodsucker, from top to bottom (5)
- 7. Tale of a cricket side in royal mess (8)
- 8. Kill the regulator (8)
- 9. Dirty politician overshadows — it's a joke (6,3,5)
- 15. Blue, green, even next piece is active (9)
- 16. Carol checks Don using bad language (8)
- 17. Struggle for fish (8)
- 19. Finally you and I run away — for a forbidden fruit? (6)
- 20. A yacht built in ancient China (6)
- 22. Hard to break in — good slot (5)
