/ Weekly / 6 Jul 2025
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Across

  • 1. Digesting no fibre creates significant burning. (7)
  • 5. Endless depth of top astronaut next to sailing ship. (5)
  • 9. Company invested in tube rail? (4)
  • 10. Scalp flakes; held, brushed and ruffled. (8)
  • 11. Bare skin? Aunty loses point for good looks. (6)
  • 12. Amendment of former broadcast. (6)
  • 14. Centrism begot self-centrism... (3)
  • 15. Canoe adrift in the pacific, say. (5)
  • 17. Currency managed to enter football club. (5)
  • 19. Regularly run from Foo Fighter (3)
  • 21. Spits out fringe joke about manic sect (6)
  • 22. Draw back after couple's hearts get higher? (6)
  • 24. Declare bug is plaintiff (8)
  • 26. Extol desire to lose cents (4)
  • 27. Dared to shake snake! (5)
  • 28. Quest to synthesise soy dyes. (7)

Down

  • 2. Embryo developed without "climax of intimacy" forms gradient (5)
  • 3. Conventional equation by computer chip (9)
  • 4. Concerning dead stare from overnight flight. (6)
  • 6. Pub = atmosphere (approximately). (3)
  • 7. Mixture for fans of spice? (7)
  • 8. Opening crushed tin with part of rod. (5)
  • 11. Personal story of top boys in organisation. (3)
  • 13. Roman candles discharge massages (9)
  • 16. American sang Christmas songs, changing third verse for jaunty intro from "Sweet Talk". (7)
  • 18. Duck backflips dropping kilo of pre-digested food. (3)
  • 19. You and I had initially upended a long-standing "normal" (5)
  • 20. Bastard used to getting kicked out. (6)
  • 23. Show is ever revolving around you. (5)
  • 25. Indignation of Ireland's lost estate (3)