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1 Food that’s good after whisky perhaps (6,3) 6 Awkward employees need one for answer (5) 9 In France she never ever lost her name (5) 10 Eager to put cheese back on the shelf for sale (5-4) 11 One may apply pressure if there’s dough (7,3) 12 Consequence of injury that’s almost frightening (4) 14 Prescribed15 Old form of capital managed by thug (7) 17 Defer pay out after American flipped (7) 19 Work out saying nothing about pressure by firm (7) 20 Parrot’s speech organ, essentially (4) 22 Reach people primarily through achievement (10) 25 The Wirral perhaps gets a nine plus for development (9) 26 Do something about part of London (3,2) 27 A poet’s race for place, for example (5) 28 Tumbler’s trip with whiskeydrinking doctor (4,5)

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