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Across
- 1. Spreads abominable hatred in base regularly (8)
- 5. Spies return after an intelligence agency abandons pathetic design (6)
- 10. Predictably blasé! Going topless around America (2,5)
- 11. Ignoring prohibition, lawyer drinks alcohol heartily to celebrate (7)
- 12. Public showings in multiplex postponed (5)
- 13. Agreed on a rum and soft drink (9)
- 14. What a waiter will do to relinquish something easily? (4,2,1,5)
- 18. Outstanding muscular strength, popular to assert one’s authority (5,3,4)
- 21. One controlling money, accurate in setting right rate (9)
- 23. Despise a cheat about to ensnare husband (5)
- 24. Get higher, drinking ale frantically and consummate (7)
- 25. Less work experience (7)
- 26. Recruit stole in slyly, wanting love (6)
- 27. Sweet associate mourning about retrogressive ban (8)
Down
- 1. They stop crashes, I hear (6)
- 2. Supplies ecstasy, crack and a bit of smack (6)
- 3. Detective consuming alcoholic spirits with a little tender piece of chicken (9)
- 4. What grooms might do to show restraint? (4,4,6)
- 6. Squabbling Republican removed! Outstanding (5)
- 7. Architectural moulding, star-shaped, filled with silver (8)
- 8. Reprimanded severely, worry overwhelms dear daughter (8)
- 9. What a gravedigger might do to be innovative? (5,3,6)
- 15. Embarrassed about chasing hot single in scheme to sleep around (9)
- 16. Drunkard smuggling cocaine runs through charge unpunished (4-4)
- 17. Poor mate overwhelmed by attack in hostile letters (4,4)
- 19. Young reporter protecting girl is an angel (6)
- 20. Go over precarious ridge (6)
- 22. Knifes drunk aboard steamer (5)
