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Across: 1 Every year prison receives kilogram parcel (7)
5 Sell one, eventually returning wrapping (6)
9 Glimpsed eight bats in outskirts of Salford (7)
10 Secretary rings an expert for perfect solution (7)
11 Recall bitter conflict (3)
12 Somehow finish rugs with new accessories for house (11)
13 Reminiscent of past times, before trouser presses! (5)
14 It’s trivial, less than half a pint maybe (5,4)
16 Lead sherpa displayed rewards now and then (9)
17 Beat £1 (5)
19 Discreet but nervous trips round India (11)
22 Immediately succeeded in recession (3)
23 It’s used in Curaçao but not Caracas (7)
24 Love making a record about husband (7)
26 Dutch house fruit (6)
27 Killer of vermin catching large snake (7)
Down: 1 After 1945, job was cut radically at first (4-3)
2 Decorate lighter designed as a smoker’s device (9,6)
3 Part of play in a court (3)
4 Big foreign articles (5)
5 Border separating theatre and carpet (9)
6 Lowly position of religious books during the broadcast (5)
7 Minor sort of quaint insolence (15)
8 Harbour wears out mooring rope (6)
12 Bemuse father entertaining ladies perhaps (5)
14 Start to solve cryptic clue in head? Take a punt (9)
15 Slip and fall after officer leaves (5)
16 Spring course needs amending (6)
18 Comic interrupts performer, widowed lady (7)
20 Part of bird’s foot, a long sharp claw (5)
21 Victor’s missing first ring around bull (5)
25 Baby’s strong drink (3)
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