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Cryptic No 27
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  •  1  US lawyer with face-covering of a particular woven fabric (6)

  •  5  Game birds finish up with a nocturnal one (8)

  •  9  A Bury gal reformed could be right or wrong (8)

  • 10 In favour of not backing nuclear element (6)

  • 11 It's what you do when you take the rules away! (10)

  • 12 Mint favoured by old explorer? (4)

  • 13 Measured for a hat when turned turtle, so it sounds (8)

  • 16 Too much tonic does this to gin, so medic professes (6)

  • 17 Ex-pupil back to look at garden party cover (6)

  • 19 Refusal to fight if scampi is prepared (8)

  • 21 Shortened sauce on a salad? (4)

  • 22 Colloquially, it's me! (5,5)

  • 25/23       Monk's close shave suggests that the simplest solution is probably correct (6,5)

  • 26 Poet embraces fifty-one asleep in snowstorm (8)

  • 27 Judas arranged beer tray (8)

  • 28 Arrange arrest of the scarcest (6)

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  •  2  Arrange eager match (5)

  •  3  Tar starts employment with insults (5)

  •  4  Top half of bikini backed objections voiced in Israeli farm (7)

  •  5  Unreliable method to draw back (7)

  •  6  See what's being said? (3-4)

  •  7  Evidence of idiot prevents tampering (9)

  •  8  Countries where forests may be seen? (9)

  • 14 Snowfall when actress Gardner and revolutionary embrace the French female in the north (9)

  • 15 Rogues sat around a dinosaur (9)

  • 18 Part of somebody's Seychelles journey (7)

  • 19 Tradesman reports depth (7)

  • 20 Bank worker to be dismissed from the Army (7)

  • 23 See 25 Across

  • 24 No peerless House! (5)

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