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Across
- 1. Encounters swarm from the east with a disfigured sign (8)
- 5. Incentives after commencement bring unwelcome obligations (6)
- 9. Fortify retreat as eccentric Aslam goes around with some musical compositions (9)
- 11. Heard almost half of Ceylon is getting a synthetic fibre (5)
- 12. Divert letters from the admirer outed... (7)
- 14. ...by the cunning cowherd to get the thick soup (7)
- 15. Aristocrat seizes strangely wan container for the Frenchman's oil and coal, say (12)
- 17. Shutting away the queen's tigers after review (12)
- 20. Trimmed space-suit design presents a favourable sign (7)
- 22. Sanitised old record for the church of the holy man (7)
- 23. In the pan, success might be difficult to reproduce (5)
- 24. Run over to prepare for the warm season, reportedly (9)
- 26. Plan to return notice after shortening the backer's name at the wrong place (6)
- 27. Sweet-talk? That is a cover for the Nevada police officer with the Spanish revolutionary (8)
Down
- 1. Tribute to the storage in a computing system (6)
- 2. Gift, including almost all of the stock farm, shows the strength... (9)
- 3. ...hidden in the vision of a Pakistani agency (1,1,1)
- 4. Doctor Green's classes show a lack of co-ordination and elegance (13)
- 6. Storage that is unaffected by loss of power? (3-8)
- 7. Firm's dependable (5)
- 8. Guard's right about providing protection for the books by the king (6)
- 10. Note about knight on watch with the son (a nut) losing the tail of the North Pacific fish (7,6)
- 13. Desperately hungry peacekeepers attached to New Orleans (old city) are in a single hut (11)
- 16. Newton participates in ignition to generate an electric storm (9)
- 18. The French get overwhelmed by the Iowa lottery for a palm tree (6)
- 19. Plan by the leaders of some conservative Hungarians ends my embarrassment (6)
- 21. Condition of the son going to the top in appreciation (5)
- 25. One out of a job might have received it (3)
