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A hundred and twenty

by Chalicea

Twelve clues contain the same short word (often, but not always in the same place), which is ignored in the subsidiary part of the clue. You may prefer to work on the interactive version of the puzzle. Click here for access to the Crossword Compiler page, which cannot be technically supported by GenevaLunch.

Across

1 The German is given to affection (6)

4 Blackguard takes in North American Republican in deliberate falsification (6)

9 Catch a banger (4)

10 Took her cunningly bent nail (10)

11 Strip of wood for fixing cricket club (6)

12 Reorganised electronic not wanting to put a ring around (8)

13 Indispensable but surprisingly queries it (9)

15 Classic car’s portable shelter (4)

16 Leather strap to smartly hit back (4)

17 It’s kind of psychotherapeutic but not explosively seraphic to write without looking (5-4 hyphenated)

21 Sepal tip disturbed and seed stripped of membrane (5-3 hyphenated)

22 Essential quality of a used tea urn (6)

24 Discordant fallen tone reveals membranous gap (10)

25 Starting sport a great stride for a Scot (4)

26 Term of office of ancient city engineer (6)

27 Channel said to be free from bends (6)

Down

1 Encampment has dilapidated gate (7)

2 Chessman reportedly at the end of the day (5)

3 Prolongs time former partner heartlessly denies (7)

5 Arbitrarily punish odd armies’ racket (6)

6 Earthborn, gone beserk is offensive (9)

7 Medic has work permit to produce minute quantity of liquid (7)

8 Deliberately and inspirationally excluding devastated Paris (13)

14 International organisation’s legal document is based on custom (9)

16 Drinking binge bridging a short month is a central source of growth (7)

18 Leader of Commons’ not confused – satisfied (7)

19 Presage of something occurring in red wine (7)

20 First player returned and admitted into bizarre nepotism (6)

23 Tales about a unit of magnetic flux (5)

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