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Independent 7853

Crossword grid

ACROSS

1              Cricketer as hard as nails? (7)

5              Rockery plant lays all over the place, in front of everything (7)

9              Looked longer at detours, being redirected (9)

10           Superior meal with no trace of soup (5)

11           A number of worthies found among men in England (4)

12           Bible host destroyed by hard test word (10)

14/5d    Refrain from drunken carnage?  (2-2-2,3,1,6,2,3)

15           Collectors of bones and rocks (7)

16           He gets in half of cash – pound is to decrease in value (7)

18           Many things about a man to feel disgust at (6)

20           Writer, source of treasure, not about to slip back (10)

21           Boring display abandoned by a Parisian (4)

24           Smallest part of domicile, a stable (5)

25           Damage and illness mostly European preserve (9)

26           River bird with bill at the front (7)

27           Sailor, Frenchman, consumed a great deal (7)

DOWN

1              Tanned forehead before end of vacation (5)

2              A new fashion in outfits initially threatened merchant (7)

3              Night flier picking up six letters (4)

4              French invader imprisoning most of the noble lines – Percy or Westmoreland, say (5-10)

5              See 14 across

6              Surprised comment prompted by solvers’ silence? (3,4,3)

7              Certain the writer packs power at the topmost level (7)

8              Horses surrounding church in border country (7)

13           Company, increasingly curtailed, absorbing small French rival (10)

16           Part of ear hearing sound on meadow (7)

17           Eastern trees rot?  (3-4)

19           Manor-house containing ancient bag (7)

22           Crime article supported by newspaper (5)

23           Actors in Lloyd-Webber musical (two changing places) (4)

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