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No 26,743 set by Bonxie

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Across

4 Barney scratches head --

1 Escape? Never! (3,4)

terrible itch (5)

5 Wrong treatment --

5 Classified status protects

not the first to cause

English constitution (3,6)

extreme suffering (7)

6 Rise up behind parent (4)

9 Superior part of Oxford? 7 Corroborate where

(5)

Nabokov placed comma?

10 Clapped out software

(8)

program subsequently

8 Providing funds, though

much admired (9)

die in the red? (8)

11 Top horse for an execu- 13 Tremendous novel, so

tive scout (10)

romantic (10)

12 Endlessly stroke

15 Pop round letter bearing

stomach (4)

oven bill inside (9)

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14 Spooner's rig fabricated for forward movement

16 Firing squad place inventor in line (4,4)

(11)

17 Salad ingredient or

18 Treat me with trans-

Spooner's green night-

planted nerve tissue (5,6)

mare? (4,4)

21 Adolescent right to leave 19 Good cook rehashes Ital-

wooden utensils (4)

ian starters for a spell (6)

22 Around the end of night 20 Duck! A wheels's worked

shift, concierge becomes

free from the motorbike

selfish (10)

(6)

25 Clarify dodgy clue that's 23 Faith burned missing

holding a little back (9)

mat (5)

26 Muscle, a little thing in

24 Intimate clinch in TV

the ear (5)

part (4)

27 Get ready to stop mum's

bagpipes (7)

28 He runs down animal outside stall -- tail sliced off (7)

Solution No. 26,742

C OMP R E S S R O EW

PLAC I D EAE

Down

EMP HA S I S HAWS E R O I DNGS S I

1 Call for quiet, say, being tactless (6)

2 Large tile exactly placed

LANKY GREATNES S

E GMT N

TO

CASHREG I STER

I PDERNEY

around edges of plinth (3,3) 3 Bicker over one dis-

MAR S E I L L A I S E

PO

ELTPP

L I F E C L A S S ATONE

YORDTN I N

patching a member of the flock (10)

I NU R E D MO C C A S I N

NND

REOE

G I DEON L E S S ENED

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