Cryptic Clues
ACROSS
1 All debts repaid by Frank (8)
5 It is given in recompense for service of retiring artist (6)
9 A cinema which doesn’t show popular films gets share out by arrangement (3,5)
10 Hat found in canal (6)
12 Girl in service returns key to Henry (5)
13 The very same notion encompasses sculpted tin in front of city library (9)
14 The co-ordination of separate components creates abnormal torsion again (12)
18 Girl moves suddenly from a town in Australia (5,7)
21 Hurry and produce a bit of happiness out east (4,5)
23 Rock is finally dead (5)
24 State of perfection? (6)
25 Married girl hides old boy somewhere in Canada (8)
26 Deception is sweet (6)
27 Sad to be left with many a flower (8)
DOWN
1 Sticks with small county (6)
2 Again trot out a witty answer (6)
3 Smoother sitting on animal or railway engine? (4,5)
4 This kind of kick may lead to an injury? (8,4)
6 Perform in French to produce an effect (5)
7 Chaotic when a new car demolished this in Rome (8)
8 This stops the phone being used for the last possible time (8)
11 Doctor in England gets delivery of exercise equipment (8-4)
15 In Spain following venerable saint (9)
16 Town discovered by river entrance (8)
17 Moth seen in cloth with gold bit of macrame (8)
19 Good answer - learning is in abundance (6)
20 ‘Sell it!’ Earl ordered (6)
22 At first Helen and I kept Updike’s poem (5)
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