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A cryptic crossword again this week. You may wish to work on the interactive version. Click on this link which will take you to the Crossword Compiler page – which cannot be technically supported by GenevaLunch.

League team and reserve

Fourteen solutions contain the same short word, usually but not always at the start. This word is ignored in the subsidiary part of the clue.

Across

1 Hood returning young sow (6)

4 Once run back the way a thing is done (6)

9 Catch a banger (4)

10 Not English-made fluorescent lamps (4,6)

11 Fully understand foundation (6)

12 Prairie province – little aboriginal returns to it (8)

13/15 Perversely we prevent a long-lasting artificial set of curls (9,4)

16 Grinding stone circle (4)

17 Proceeding from a source and consuming (9)

21 Whenever required, do end in a bad way (2,6)

22 An article and another tomorrow (6)

24 Large characters, small major, and us getting muddled clues (10)

25 Printed symbol – A B C D F (4)

26 Doctor of Engineering and university egghead gets acute fever (6)

27 Dead tree round towards the sheltered side (6)

Down

1 Miserable place, means of access to a sewer (7)

2 Dreadful thing, ignorance! (5)

3 Sketch a person who takes care of the telephone wires (7)

5 Heather, after first class, feeling sickly (6)

6 Not get in a muddle – one is working to achieve settlement (9)

7 Be alert! Unstable shelf behind the altar (7)

8 Could modem design unit where astronauts live and control a spaceship? (7,6)

14 Model uses quinine mixture – not I! (9)

16 Deep red variety of chalcedonic silica roof (7)

18 Start of new emergency measure especially suitable in stopping a thing that cannot be achieved (7)

19 On-going surgical procedure at first not followed by good man (7)

20 Language embraced by Quechuas (6)

23 Not one taking in a hundred for the time being (5)

Here is last week’s solution:

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