I have only hazy memories about this one, solved and blogged in a lull between various Christmas activities.
Thanks Hypnos.
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| 1 | NECTAR |
Place that exhibits endless pastry and drink (6)
NEC (National Exhibition Centre, place than exhibits) TARt (pastry, endless)
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| 4 | SCABBARD |
Case namely put by group on road (8)
sc (namely) with ABBA (group) on RD (road)
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| 9 | CHRISTIANS AWAKE |
A Kiwi’s chants are discordant in carol (10,5)
(A KIWI’S CHANTS ARE)*
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| 11 | NEAT |
Supine athlete’s bottles lacking water (4)
inside (bottled by) supiNE AThelete
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| 12 | STORM DRAIN |
Soldiers with doctor in effort to find emergency outlet? (5,5)
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| 14 | MANHOLE |
A new hotel in harbour getting restricted opening (7)
A N (new) H (hotel) in MOLE (harbour)
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| 15 | FISCAL |
Southern accountant engaged in row largely regarding tax (6)
S (southern) CA (Chartered Accoutnant) in FILe (row, largely)
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| 17 | JACOBI |
Actor producing short flag beside sash (6)
JACk (flag, short) by OBI (sash) – Derek Jacobi
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| 19 | REALISE |
Twig and leaves (very small leaves) I moved behind river (7)
anagram (moved) of LEAvES (missing v=very, small=abbreviation) I following R (river) –
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| 22 | UNILATERAL |
College lecturer after a tense period left being one-sided (10)
UNI (college) L (lecturer) A T (tense) ERA (period) L (left)
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| 23 | PACT |
Agreement put in box, we’re told (4)
sounds like (we are told) packed (put in box)
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| 25 | WHAT CHILD IS THIS |
Carol had chit with wish list that’s revised (4,5,2,4)
anagram of HAD CHIT with WISH LIST
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| 26 | THEORIES |
Greek man is revolting devoid of heart and principles (8)
THEO (Greek man’s name) RIsES (is revolting, missing heart)
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| 27 | TAVERN |
Retired priest entering function in drinking establishment (6)
REV (priest) reversed (retired) in TAN (function)
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| Down | ||
| 1 | NICKNAME |
Tiny cut by music publication about a term for someone (8)
NICk (tiny cut) A in NME (music publication)
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| 2 | CURTAIN |
Iron, say? It can be drawn (7)
double definition
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| 3 | ALSO |
Constituents in marginals overlooked additionally (4)
found in marginALS Originally
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| 5 | CENTRE FORWARD |
Rugby player supporting charge for footballer (6,7)
CENTRE (rugby player) on
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| 6 | BRANDY SNAP |
Biscuit, type put with waffle in tin? The opposite (6,4)
BRAND (type) with SN (tin) in YAP (waffle)
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| 7 | ALABAMA |
State styled after President, nothing less (7)
ALA (styled) oBAMA (president) missing O (nothing)
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| 8 | DUENNA |
Outstanding relative bringing up rear, mature escort (6)
DUE (outstanding) NAN (relative) with last letter brought up to the front
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| 10 | IN THE PIPELINE |
How one might describe crude material being prepared? (2,3,8)
definition/cryptic definition
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| 13 | GO-GO DANCER |
Work by day in Indian church getting rupees for club employee (2-2,6)
GO (work) D (day) in GOAN (Indian) CE (church) R (Rupees)
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| 16 | JETTISON |
Abandon pier, source of light, we hear (8)
not sure about this, sounds like “jetty’s on” maybe? Or JETTY SON (with son=son of god)? JETTY + SUN (source of light) – of course!
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| 18 | AGITATE |
Stir up volunteers in a French cottage (7)
TA (Territorial Army, volunteers) in A GITE (Freanch cottage)
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| 20 | IVANHOE |
Novel area in ground in Hove (7)
A (area) in (IN HOVE)* anagram=ground
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| 21 | OUTWIT |
Show more ingenuity than fool in adult place of learning? (6)
TWIT (fool) in teh OU (Open Univerity)
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| 24 | ASIA |
A second capital arising in populous region (4)
A S (second) AI (A1, great, capital!) reversed (arising)
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*anagram
definitions are underlined
definitions are underlined
12A OR (soldiers) + MD (doctor) in STRAIN.
14A Just H for HOTEL
5D Second word FORWARD is I think FOR = supporting + WARD charge (as in one dependent on the state, other authority). Not so sure about this now.
16D Homophones of JETTY and SUN (source of light).
Agree wordplay for 19A clumsy.
Thanks to Hypnos and PeeDee.
Thanks, Hypnos, and blogger. In 19A I think “very small” means v i.e. the abbrev for very, so I think it works OK.
Thanks gwep and nmsindy, all fixed now.
gwep – re 5dn I think your explanation is correct as, since it is a down clue, “CENTRE FORWARD” would be charge supporting rugby player not the other way around.