CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

No 16,846

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ACROSS

1 Blade wounded large equine (7) 5 Mollify one fellow dashing round (6) 9 Cervid runs around over English river (3,4) 10 Joining wife in punt on Severn now and then (7) 11 Train fit male (3) 12 Love sitting in a strip club rebuilt in warm latitudes (11) 13 Ring about Republican’s offensive poster (5) 14 Modern jacuzzi for each place filled with columns? (9) 16 Broadcast soap containing one tune that’s a killer (6,3) 17 Some bad librarians improvise (2-3) 19 Blunt foreign individual disappeared across river (11) 22 Sister comes and goes (3) 23 Bore left one bachelor in trouble (7) 24 Approved to a smaller extent in plot (7) 26 Represent suburbs of Dundee with old Scot (6) 27 The swimmer receives pressure treatment (7)

DOWN

1 Mongrel and rodent devour new fruit (7) 2 Live TV Marconi devised? He installed diode perhaps (10,5) 3 Mature amateur, say, turned up (3) 4 Eliminate undergrowth (5) 5 Paul oddly struggles round clubs on such wet outings? (3-6) 6 Distressed copper encounters ram (3-2) 7 Chaperones fly in after work in Tahiti etc (6,9) 8 Learnt about growth in deer (6) 12 Colossal volley to some extent? (5) 14 Nigel tormented guy paying little attention (9) 15 Quietly ring up for part of Highland attire (5) 16 Judy’s husband impresses a corporation (6) 18 Tyneside medic visits lad in need of irrigation (4-3) 20 Does one bring a couple of books into Torah lessons? (5) 21 Clothes horse? Sort of (5) 25 Study Nureyev’s part (3)