| Clues across |
| 1 | “I see you,” we’re told, “Turning round to keep people away from the lobby.” It’s a delusion! (13) |
| 10 | Church’s attitude to professorial appointment (5) |
| 11 | Disturbed, clings to a sort of looking back (9) |
| 12 | Edward, following river wading bird, was full of remorse (9) |
| 13 | Additional entry in next race (5) |
| 14 | Stops without starting comforts . . . . (5) |
| 16 | . . . . and I boast about punishment (9) |
| 19 | Extortioner who makes a lot of noise? (9) |
| 20 | A silent actor, I’m in the French ocean (5) |
| 21 | Emma, for example, put Christmas around third of November (5) |
| 23 | Gently cooks joint in this vessel (9) |
| 25 | Unusually, I enter 300 – how odd! (9) |
| 26 | I deserted girl – this is what she called me (5) |
| 27 | Franc stable; US to convert means of steel production (5-8) |
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| Clues down |
| 2 | Canal, for example, is churned up to reveal drug (9) |
| 3 | Huge lager gets stirred (5) |
| 4 | Artist’s scams are above board (9) |
| 5 | Pried, turning over like this in study (5) |
| 6 | Swing endlessly? I express hesitation and figure (9) |
| 7 | Should put nothing without a leader (5) |
| 8 | Red flower in vegetable patch (7,6) |
| 9 | One involved in deep study (13) |
| 15 | Shoots sledges in confusion (9) |
| 17 | Desire for a tram? (9) |
| 18 | Sham 26 could become residence for the indigent (9) |
| 22 | Five, zero, hundred and a fifty – something to sing? (5) |
| 23 | Decorative foot shoots up (5) |
| 24 | Whisky found on a Mediterranean island (5) |
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