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Twelve solutions in this crossword share a common theme. If you would prefer to work on the interactive version, click on this link that takes you to the Crossword Compiler web page.

Across

    1  Perhaps once altering a letter in a Central American state (6)

    4  Dormer window lacking name for great reformer (6)

    9  Musician or very loud compilation (4)

  10  Component of red tinge in mixture (10)

  11  Riotous festivity and flap for the rabble (6)

  12  Persisted in demanding orderly tidiness (8)

  13  Member of Protestant school of belief losing Bible is marked by benignity (9)

  15  Impresses with new start in voluntary promises made to God (4)

  16  Mate embracing upper-class epistolarian (4)

  17  Followers of Esther and Dan unusually brought together (9)

  21  Fool contending in rivalry and sharing out spoils (8)

  22  After narcotic drink, rat coming back in manifestation of Hindu deity (6)

  24  Islamic ESP strangely producing devotion to one particular pursuit (10)

  25  Scottish student of 26 impresses strongly, we hear (4)

  26  Contemporary of 4 producing bovine offspring with a lack of gravity (6)

  27  Outlandish marsh a place of religious retreat (6)

Down

    1  Old struggle for pub’s income (7)

    2  4′s printer sailing close to the wind before time (5)

    3  Impedance on flight with soldiers of one who was in doctrinal dispute with 4 (7)

    5  Any use can be unsettling (6)

    6  Ball of ice is fashioned as neolith (9)

    7  Regularly ordain other rash, extravagant preachers (7)

    8  Turkish commander popular and the same repeatedly (5,3,5)

  14  Just admitting and backing an incomplete conspiracy is questionable (9)

  16  Endlessly stiffly formal with an image and excessively concerned with virility (7)

  18  Sums are tampered with for 4′s humanist correspondent and critic (7)

  19  Set of animals including a marsupial in an eating place (7)

  20  Evil spirit of Persian mythology meets sublime Arabian boy in Hindu festival (6)

  23  One who demands a search (5)

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