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Solution to puzzle 9797

Sankalak

Across

1In the big top, it is a cover for unsteady, nasty feet (6,3)

5When should the actor make his entrance? (2,3)

8A game to make the French annoyed — end of bonhomie (8)

9Unsparing way to circumvent a ruse, almost (6)

11A bit of bread with drink in an empty club (5)

12Do one's duty, surprise Tia in place of work (9)

13In the bank, he does not necessarily tattle (6)

14The state of affairs in hockey, say (4,4)

16Gemstone that makes soprano happier somehow (8)

18Songbird, fed a piece of leaf, may jump in pain (6)

22Support for two boys on time (9)

23Lucre, misused, is a source of evil (5)

24Hydrocarbon recovered from a hole finally (6)

25Seamen in the drink (8)

26Remove eavesdropper's plants (5)

27After rights are reversed, modish man becomes severe (9)

Down

1Lawyer gives up gold to ask for help (7)

2Such an account cannot contain untruth (7)

3Tracing and fixing things — it's a neighbour's lot to suffer (15)

4Upset Bengali, on elevation, finds Greek counsellor (6)

5Mirage makes cousin, a pilot, ill, delirious (7,8)

6Indian town in American state occupied by Hira, student (7)

7That's the limit! (7)

10Not working any more upset the French? Rubbish! (5)

15Old king of Troy, one in child's carriage (5)

16Part of tree which could deplete a lot of trees (7)

17Plant useful in cooking, not the same one, cased in lead symbolically (3-4)

19It would be black in a formal dinner (7)

20First among hunters, good man going across European river to gather crop (7)

21One who belongs in a club, for example (6)

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