Times Cryptic #26616

2017-01-07

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Across

1a

Wild parties interrupted by a problem for host (8)

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5a

It's not about you, in French dialect (6)

9a

Record of work doctor compiled for consultant (8)

10a

Scouts look for this article left in part of camp (6)

12a

Steadily proceed to make money illegally (5)

13a

Required to keep out of trouble, that's clear (5,4)

14a

Young women whose hips arouse sports fans? (12)

18a

Turn attack on king and queen that reveals character flaws (12)

21a

Vegetable that's all right in acre hit disastrously (9)

23a

Capital at one time husband invested in food store (5)

24a

Opening of a sort, in part of Africatime for a change, finally (6)

25a

A temperature checked and confirmed in trial (8)

26a

Decisively raised a bit of money before game (6)

27a

Cancel ceremony, we hear, not taking place (5,3)

Down

1d

Stop fighting if surrounded by fleet (6)

2d

Platforms in section of ramparts originally set up (6)

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3d

Bullet has done damage, less than fatal (9)

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4d

Find what's wrong with foreign moneyget out time after time (12)

6d

As Cecily Cardew was for Oscar, say (5)

7d

Series of deliveries that is taken in car, in summary (8)

8d

Author poking fun at flower-girl in street (8)

11d

Change to club's price that could be the government's business (6,6)

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15d

Revision in note people twice produced on time (9)

16d

Something French like to eatnot fast food (8)

17d

Occasions for retirement in base daily (8)

19d

Fate or destiny hard to see in firm (6)

20d

To some extent, relatives manage fine (4,2)

22d

Food that's hot or cold, we hear, in this country (5)