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Across
- 6. Stole fruit — it came in two sizes (5)
- 7. Sacrifice unacceptable, making a mistake right away (8)
- 10. Old woodcutter's business in China (3,4)
- 11. Creeps out — time to show deference (7)
- 12. Saw globetrotter in lead (7)
- 13. Hello! Come in, can't I get some wine? (7)
- 14. I act in order to make it rigid (11)
- 19. Horse's neck free to dig into fodder (7)
- 21. Use leaf to make it comfortable (7)
- 23. First news breaking in — end of a country (7)
- 25. Turner in kitchen, Paul sat out (7)
- 26. Take in small pouch, it has some teeth (8)
- 27. Religious doctrine works both ways (5)
Down
- 1. Staff I gather will be many (8)
- 2. A large case transported from French wine region (6)
- 3. Fruit — began transport in truck (10)
- 4. Nomad at a distance (4)
- 5. Inducted for short period as bar trainee (6)
- 6. Sleeper gets to sleep, in brief (6)
- 8. Composer is back in? No sir, out (7)
- 9. Stuck in the mud, on the way to help (5)
- 13. Send at once — flowing fresh water, perhaps (10)
- 15. Change part of colon (7)
- 16. Left open, flowing waste (8)
- 17. After drink forces kid (5)
- 18. Flexible part, nail pushed up a bit (6)
- 20. Seat lets you take a snooze in church (6)
- 22. Dropping tally, not everyone's absent-minded (6)
- 24. Fish pond, water level dropped initially (4)
