Cryptic Crossword No.8
Hasslethymi

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  •  6  Tamper with no prose, silly Reverend! (6,7)

  •  8  To begin with, priest and eight asthmatic nuns sang hymns of praise (6)

  •  9  (See 15) (8)

  • 10 Music wound on the radio (3)

  • 11 Girl joins father for Spanish meal (6)

  • 12 Diet exciting verbal dexterity (8)

  • 14 Bigmouth chucked out joker for 6A (7)

  • 16 Burn straw for 6A to generate rumour (7)

  • 20 Australian shrub sports no rubber wheel coatings, according to 6A (4,4)

  • 23 Vocal sprout grower awakened one (6)

  • 24 Are ya in debt?' mumbled couple (3)

  • 25 Ron Grove (Monster Raving Loony) for leader (8)

  • 26 6A's worker mentioned what's at the bottom of the ocean (6)

  • 27 Mum to the envoy treated boy scouts, amongst others (5,8)

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  •  1  Wrote energy-sapping screed about convoluted law (8)

  •  2  Would 6A litigate against surviving Beatle for Greek dish? (8)

  •  3  Volcanic deposit like hot plunge (3,4)

  •  4  Fellow Latvian element (6)

  •  5  Insect's stage impedes no primarily climbing rodents (6)

  •  6  Plot device involved romantic diary (8,5)

  •  7  Thatcher cross about psychologist's assessment (9,4)

  • 13 Time dared to go backwards skipping days on end (3)

  • 15 & 9 Praise for pipistrelle, say, is what might cause a breakdown for 6A (3)

  • 17 Messes about around half of both stamps (8)

  • 18 Stateside agent scrambled to 6A flushed with embarrassment (3-5)

  • 19 Copper pole where 6A sleeps? (7)

  • 21 Butcher's auditor's architect  (6)

  • 22 Spooner anchors smuggling homestead (6)

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