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Across
- 6. Keep Pound in Switzerland (5)
- 7. Poor long suffering creature (8)
- 10. Late prospect, showing no response (7)
- 11. Father of three, Turkish leader died for his country (7)
- 12. General way to make it bigger (7)
- 13. Plant material by one in Germany (7)
- 14. Chronic type, worried about fireworks (11)
- 19. Can hit the sea in France (7)
- 21. A newspaper takes on a system of rules (7)
- 23. Not only noisy, in fact led on (7)
- 25. Free trial allowed, provided it's an emergency rescue act (7)
- 26. Making a mark and entering land (8)
- 27. Ability to express oneself only makes it piquant (5)
Down
- 1. "Sit up and take a call on meet", you're told (8)
- 2. He took to his heels on European upraising (6)
- 3. Nothing confidential in such a missive (4,6)
- 4. Break up vessels (4)
- 5. The German drinks French wine, I guess (6)
- 6. Harry's an animal (6)
- 8. Algerian port has many hoisting bunting (7)
- 9. Way to store wine in a cask, it's a gimmick (5)
- 13. Make fun of one under shade of shrub (4,6)
- 15. Month in Spain — nothing for a month, return (7)
- 16. Group takes over, bar a man-eater (8)
- 17. Ideas to get away (5)
- 18. Not among the pigs, too big for one's breeches (6)
- 20. Attraction, boy turns out to be Royal blue (6)
- 22. No booze, get high monster! (6)
- 24. Drop or push up a tit, say (4)
Published - January 31, 2018 12:05 am IST