Cryptic Crossword
ACROSS
1 Flower getting prize at dairy show? (9)
6 Dora and I retuned set (5)
9 Capital cover has to be arranged before final blow (5)
10 Name part of character in play (5,4)
11 Certainly not dirt cheap (7,3,5)
13 Animal, carnivore about to be caught by river in Yorkshire (8)
14 Reptile seen by American plant (6)
16 No Republican hit back as usual (6)
18 Gareth accepted sad feeling could be included in list of words (8)
21 People who do not have much in common (15)
23 Target man upsetting shrewish person (9)
25 Man left in the money (5)
26 Conservatives in Brighton (5)
27 Moses’ brother’s staff’s plant (6,3)
DOWN
1 Primary scholar, individual entering signal corps (5)
2 How footballer made side-to-side movement (11)
3 Number one specialist (7)
4 Removed grey coat from class (8)
5 Not even Patrick goes to church at end of day (6)
6 Beast, fifth-rate oriental in new order (3,4)
7 Pair of the French circle (3)
8 Too quick to have story rewritten (9)
12 Type of shape cult arrange differently (11)
13 It’s good at transmitting heat for bandleader (9)
15 Lift across North Atlantic Ocean (8)
17 Level with a swimming stroke (7)
19 Elementary chip from valley (7)
20 A jolly lady that sailed from Spain (6)
22 Eight audibly had a meal (5)
24 Man shortly trapped by Gregory (3)
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