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A straight-forward cryptic crossword this week. If you prefer to work on the interactive version, click on this LINK which will take you to the Crossword Compiler website, where you have the possibility of printing a pdf of the crossword.

Here’s a bit of crossword news too. The BBC CiNA 3D Calendar Crossword, the sales of which all go to help Children in Need is now available for purchase on-line. Well-known compilers like Pasquale, Rufus, Enigmatist and Lavatch have given their work to the project. It will make a fine Christmas present for any crossword-lover and all the money produced by sales goes to the children (a company is even printing the first 500 copies for free!)  Here is a link.

Across

    1  Admit a crime in embarrassment, feminine, not masculine (4)

    3  One showman, unusually effeminate (8)

    9  Peculiar gambits of viola-player (7)

  10  Breaking down of a cell, for example, is sly perhaps (5)

  11   Characteristic smell for a bikini (5)

  12  Any obsolete curtailed unknown old dry river valley (6)

  14  Unusual piece of cord fastening fishing nets – Norwegian line (6)

  16  US card game one rich peasant played (6)

  19  Strange flavour (not fresh initially) of unfertilised egg (6)

  21  Major processed large drink (5)

  24  Old emblem for camp holding higher ranks (5)

  25  Storming of a town in a second old leap (7)

  26  Plant lice unusually spy dill returning with a trace of sap (8)

  27  French dear – caught the lady! (4)

Down

    1  Mulberry harbours – thing used at war (8)

    2  Seminal fluid’s curtailed uprising of nemesis (5)

    4  Siberian or East German milk-producer (6)

    5  More competent sailor, the French rule (5)

    6  A TV station in debt. Would you believe it? (1,3,3)

    7  Old command orchestras have at heart (4)

    8  Illusion of Soviet space craft a century after (6)

  13  Brain membrane of a primate in disorder (3,5)

  15  Merrymaking in bar returning on train line (7)

  17  Modify publicity in accordance with facts (6)

  18  First of Zoroastrian’s taken in by soldiers – foolish – for their Supreme Lord (6)

  20  The Parisian female friend is lawful (5)

  22  Turbulent time abandoning vessel (5)

  23  Washerwoman’s helper goes outside university to have a bite in St Andrews (4)

Here is last week’s solution:

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