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Across
- 1. Like in wine, it has its roots (6)
- 4. Trouble wearing spikes in West Indies (8)
- 9. Pigs stay in and around Chinese hut (6)
- 10. Subject in a large settlement (8)
- 12. Appeal from top to bottom, King gives green signal (3,5)
- 13. Lost identity in pile-up, it's stress (6)
- 15. Payment in instalments — a fool assumes it is at random (12)
- 18. Wild partying, so we get stamina (7,5)
- 21. Twists, turns — energy input creates disturbance (6)
- 22. One’s on bed within nine — it's habit forming (8)
- 24. Flow is not regulated, discard (8)
- 25. 51% — he gets the last fruit (6)
- 26. Railing is allowed in talk (8)
- 27. Swear by race tips, only version (4,2)
Down
- 1. Throw out one who is marooned (8)
- 2. Horse frisky, last seen with another animal (8)
- 3. Important data — Ideally comes in multiples of 12 (5,10)
- 5. Meeting? Take friend (4)
- 6. A word not kept — proof that's in Chambers, probably (6,2,7)
- 7. Indian traffic rule, makes no sense (6)
- 8. Notice Brown getting back into the house (6)
- 11. Stone divider on the road (4,3)
- 14. Silent about working on the template (7)
- 16. Silly, how foolish it's to be acting in a scholarly fashion (8)
- 17. Spooner's call to release bird from plant (4,4)
- 19. State something amusing, when in North India (6)
- 20. The fool's got power, entered quietly (6)
- 23. Storyteller's taken to writing — read (4)
