Cryptic Crossword - Economic Times Bangalore (8865 of 10-01-2024) - Fillable and with solution

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Across:
1 Pretend to utter a number (3-4)
5 Wetland in Berkshire town (6)
9 Abandoned provided drink with sun gone (5,2)
10 Disclosed place for patients away from a place? (7)
11 Central characters in port keeping a paddling device (3)
12 Kerb scarily designed for some in the building trade (11)
13 Manner adopted by testy leader (5)
14 Tell a far-fetched story, for example, about secure area with Royal Navy (4,1,4)
16 Allow little margin of time with order to a butcher about meat? (3,2,4)
17 Wild dale with river and tree with tiny cones (5)
19 Regularly occurring time for theatregoers to drink? (2,9)
22 Vagrant missing ordinary cooking appliance (3)
23 Shortly cook hot stuff, a layered pastry dessert (7)
24 Habitually take part in indoor game in shape for the most part (2,2,3)
26 Note in prophetic types contemptuous looks (6)
27 African country is beside island surrounded by shoaling fish (7)

Down:
1 Learner in the past on small reef-bound areas of water (7)2 Picket, nervy sort when agitated, is extremely destitute (7-8)3 Longing by Jean on a regular basis (3)
4 Top religious instruction in Mediterranean island (5)
5 Accumulate capital quietly with first signs of incredibly lucrative enterprise (9)
6 Some host I admired in Italian port (5)
7 Adversary fights to change unpopular periods to work? (9,6)
8 Number team raised for an inventor (6)
12 Bishop has break in French city (5)
14 Drivers use these and lose grip on Greek island, reportedly (4,5)
15 Artist in a book beginning to showcase speedy horses (5)
16 Irritable religious teacher restricted in confines of chaplaincy (6)
18 Woman in loose garment starts to raise the arms (7)
20 Poke fun at rear of decrepit facility (5)
21 A Republican understood jargon (5)
25 Bring up leading charged particle (3)
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