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Across
- 1. “We haven’t met for ages,” perhaps _enturies, say? (4,4,2,3)
- 8. Promotional feature on obscure book (5)
- 9. Noticing a crafty female in disguise (9)
- 11. Reasonable judgement shown by one keeping lodger and lover apart (10)
- 12. Leave wife for glimpse of bombshell in advertisement (4)
- 14. Resolve stiffens to lose a bit of flab to achieve this? (7)
- 16. Bloomer! A big one, sadly (7)
- 17. Proceeds to feel remorse for keeping cool (7)
- 19. Ineffectual people on ecstasy and speed losing head with such frenzy (7)
- 21. Rude contemptible man in front of bar (4)
- 22. Brusquely dismiss graduate bored by career with bank (5,5)
- 25. Pantry not yet filled up? (5,4)
- 26. Subtle hint to embrace girl when it gets dark (5)
- 27. Take a very bad risk! That will be devastating for litigant? (5,8)
Down
- 2. Well-to-do university student enthralled by well-known model (7)
- 3. Obese gent disturbed about wife’s liaisons (2-8)
- 4. Fool married for short time crying over spilt milk, say (5)
- 5. Passionate kiss involved in transformation of celibate (9)
- 6. Sailor gyrating continuously at wild party (4)
- 7. Dismissal of Republican turning into dire issue (7)
- 8. Set of ingenious resources that a magician has (3,2,6)
- 10. What you get from laundry when nothing’s conceded by your team (1,5,5)
- 13. They advise some about life and relations! (5,5)
- 15. Degeneration involved in endlessly wanting to sleep around! It’s considered offensive (9)
- 18. Drinking a bit of rum, I’ve got weird light-headedness (7)
- 20. Start to secure far end of sail with grommet of rope (7)
- 23. Sportsmen who’ve problems going outside circle! (5)
- 24. Insult to drink noisily, not softly (4)
