Axross
1 Penguins, say, of varying types (6)
4 Poet, reportedly game, getting no backing (8)
10 Certainly a certainty (4,5)
11 Street urchin playing endlessly (5)
12 Poke about round small hen house (5)
14 Beautiful girl taking a piece in board game (9)
15 A soft drink, something unattractive after beer? (6,5)
18 A number of swans in short biblical book (11)
21 Station wagon’s condition in anticlockwise race (6,3)
22 Els, for example, with one parting eagle (5)
23 Honours European, corpulent (5)
24 Landlord to save in secret (9)
26 Calamity resulting from Diane’s bloomer (8)
27 Sunny on leaving resort (6)
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Down
1 Give account of journalist after editor turned up (8)
2 Drink reverend upset over speaker? (8)
3 Despicable person giving lift to sailor (3)
5 Intended to wear this? (10,4)
6 Nurse, popular girl after dark (11)
7 Drop of sherry, enough to taste (6)
8 Stake in extremely notorious French city (6)
9 Amusement device nimble chaplain plays (7,7)
13 Vocal group’s threat spelt out (3,8)
16 Clean round pub close to big Canadian city (8)
17 Nice rest spoilt behind closed doors (2,6)
19 Lower back’s additional support (6)
20 Emphasise head of state rests uneasily (6)
25 Peter Rabbit’s blunder (3)
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