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Across
- 1. Amasses quickly – libertines have arrived! (5,2)
- 5. Impolite sailor put out around the heart of Paris (6)
- 9. Rose and fell in the main (5)
- 10. What one may do with cosmetic for enhancement and feel of beauty (3,1,5)
- 11. "I would like to be alone" – go to extremes of the extreme (5,2)
- 12. For this prospect, you don't need any insight (7)
- 13. "What are the things to do?" ... After tea, comes questions (5)
- 14. Setter, having declared he's in hospital, is restless (9)
- 16. Once educated about core of horse having descended (9)
- 19. Religious passage – a blend of lies (5)
- 21. Well for the French with a mountain on all sides (7)
- 23. All but select army officer's old flute (7)
- 24. Devotionally soldier, large, gets into returning tanker (9)
- 25. Daughter's left broken pottery (5)
- 26. Bride's discarded rubbish (6)
- 27. Bandage of woman in riding seat (7)
Down
- 1. Display military power – let star breathe uneasily (6,3,5)
- 2. Snatches – snatches of rest following joke (7)
- 3. Danes are out with small section’s sorrow (7)
- 4. Nine get an active way of clearing up (9)
- 5. Sound car (old) (5)
- 6. Knocking sound three times at residence's entrance in front (3-1-3)
- 7. All but fat, large, extremely fine and feathery (7)
- 8. As advised to patients asked to take 'mixture' (5,3,6)
- 15. Fraudulent schemes – results of real estate companies' efforts (3-2,4)
- 17. Slates cartoonist in made-up tale (7)
- 18. One who gets his back is extremely vile in rage (7)
- 19. Song about knave in rustic setting (7)
- 20. Ran, carrying fuel – it's messed up (7)
- 22. Blasts in drinking binges (5)
Published - November 26, 2016 02:19 am IST