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Across
- 6. Making fun as it's a blunder (5)
- 7. Ways to gain intelligence, being hungry (8)
- 10. Pasquinade – the French satellite gains momentum (7)
- 11. Back at the front, all tousled (7)
- 12. Drug – it's simple to get around VT now (7)
- 13. Referee's card, essentially for Luis Suarez (7)
- 14. No country loses the right to make money – may be occasionally (3,3,5)
- 19. Self-promotion by middlemen before they received final notice (3,4)
- 21. Child left in misery, or taken away to another miserable place (4,3)
- 23. Sack worker who's taken ill (7)
- 25. Not working? working behind river barge (7)
- 26. It's part of original triangle (8)
- 27. Letter sent finally to go through articles (5)
Down
- 1. Vessel carrying troops rejecting Italian cheese (8)
- 2. Choice between air and heavenly light (6)
- 3. It's sweet to have a drink break (6,4)
- 4. Hesitate to ignore wife, I swear! (4)
- 5. Round tube made to cover two lengths (6)
- 6. Money is raised, Romeo loses nothing (6)
- 8. Main problem before starting regular jihad in a country (7)
- 9. Fuss about love (5)
- 13. A container of soap bubbles placed under the jaw (5,5)
- 15. Distortion over green leaf (7)
- 16. Harry or Andrew came closer (8)
- 17. Work with weatherman raising the rate (5)
- 18. It has gone through war and destruction (6)
- 20. Overstretched? Take time out for tea (6)
- 22. Fire poor foreign minister, informers let off (6)
- 24. Raze out a pound, may be (4)