Cryptic Crossword - Economic Times New Delhi (9372 of 23-08-2025) - Fillable and with solution

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Across:
1 Cuts strokes used in texts (7)
5 Talk together about fine European in credit (6)
9 Post Office supplied with a food from Italy (7)
10 Bodily examination claimed to be defective (7)
11 Hard work after time is spent getting commodity (3)
12 Proper pocket? (11)
13 Confess start of woes with Greek character in work (3,2)
14 Kitchen utensils to reposition U.S. canapes (9)
16 Reserve in Crete altered by outsiders in charge (9)
17 Speedy bird with slender wings (5)
19 Unusually daft set, say, holding line in a loyal way (11)
22 Problem leaving first old horse (3)
23 Manufacture of a biro in African capital (7)
24 Quiet period found by colonist in procession (7)
26 Apply pressure to sides in league shortly (4,2)
27 Supermarket employee moving crates round back of truck (7)

Down:
1 Fool found on poor ground in Japanese city (7)
2 How one might describe many drying clothes in every detail? (3,5,3,4)
3 Farmyard animal occupying the nursery (3)
4 Rascal from southern group living in tents? (5)
5 Penny entering Italian lake certainly showing calmness (9)
6 Lowest point in defective drain (5)
7 A sign to follow emphasis? (11,4)
8 Gripping tools left in parts of seaside resorts (6)
12 A second film showing savoury jelly (5)
14 Maybe, touching thrill (9)
15 Student’s work adapted, yes, around Swansea’s outskirts (5)
16 Feel bitterness towards note transmitted (6)
18 More compact and less generous? (7)
20 New expression from the south for flood (5)
21 Some pretty pessimistic sorts (5)
25 Travel over a part of India (3)
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