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9.            g 10.   
  g   g   g   g   g   g   g  
11.        g 12.       
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g g g 13.   14.    g 15.     
16. g 17. g   g   g   g   g   g  
18.      g 19.       g g g
  g   g g g   g g g   g 20. g 21.
22.    23.    g 24.       
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25.    g 26.           
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27.               

ACROSS

1. The likes of 2-Down and 14-Down feature a group of trees ... some around facade (6,2,7)

9. Silly mannerisms turned fate into fact (11)

10. Hooter confused cow's sound (3)

11. Hide the port! (7)

12. Becoming a grass conveyance? (7)

13. Must put about, about liqueur (6)

15. Oldschool technique - loss of direction in film festival (5)

18. 2-Down or 14-Down? Oddly, they come together (5)

19. Even I may be plain - no fatty substance (6)

22. Criticise severe frankness (7)

24. Opposing word of moral leader - going after Cleo's "Boyfriend" (7)

25. Goal one: to appear in the morning (3)

26. Finish with crazy storemen giving approval (11)

27. Crudely rinse crusty dive for prostituion or education perhaps (7,8)

DOWN

1. Shag public relations, awkwardly providing illustrations (6)

2. Animal river-crossing instution (6)

3. Fencing with deranged clone? sure! (9)

4. Broadcasting as the elated walk (2,3)

5. Classical thinker peculiar to realist (9)

6. Make a little change to the record? (5)

7. Estonian moved south with well-off chaps often seen at 2-Down and 14-Down (8)

8. Laws or Jones perhaps (if paid enough) in rebuilt lego suit (8)

14. Part of machine river-crossing institution (9)

15. Creation drunk on hairpin liqueur (9)

16. Prove too good with words to send students away (8)

17. Cooking on simmer creates a bad name (8)

20. Gets in mixed take (6)

21. Coy about German with metalworker (6)

23. Marks of mate - almost a mate of Asterix (5)

24. Professional in an item worn by 21-Down (5)