麻豆传媒

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Across

1 Bit of chicken and last of jam in bread (4)

3/26 Chemist concocting a floral drink in NS (8, 8)

9 Unusual piece of grilled cheese (7)

10 See 24

11 Reportedly escapes vegetables (5)

12 Tidy tree (6)

14 Detectives taken in by fanatic, one with nothing on (6)

16 The problem with time: skin or bone, say (6)

19 Lawyer chasing sheep鈥檚 cosmological constant (6)

21 Steals cage and cave, perhaps (5)

24/10 Physicist鈥檚 gold bar flipped in yoghurt drink (5, 5)

25 Build-up of mucus in Middle Eastern country, we hear (7)

26 See 3 across

27 Sense force, something fishy (4)

Down

1/13 Travelling healer chronicles astronomer (8, 8)

2/22 Chemist put two drops of iodine in horse medicine (5, 5)

4 Deploy malicious bot first, being difficult (6)

5 Bear and mosquito first preserved in resin (5)

6 Bees, perhaps in religious groups (7)

7 Document beginning to tear and fall (4)

8 Namib is especially welcoming to birds (6)

13 See 1 down

15 Bloodsucker regularly employed by DARPA, a cruel man (7)

17 Present at birth in pub, originally at The Eagle (6)

18 Ignoring navy and politician, train chimp in martial art (3, 3)

20 Bird, sea or hole reflecting little light (5)

22 See 2 down

23 Almost split musical symbol (4)

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