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No. 782 by Cyclops, Issue 1627
£100 prize to the first correct solution opened on 12th July 2024. private eye crossword


Across
1 A piss is said to satisfy a demand (7)
5 School gets dirt on objectionable type (7)
10 Labour's focus: women – unruly mob (4)
11 Slimy Matter, Act I – sadly unemotional (10)
12 D-dear Mary screwed outside refuse tip – romantic! (10)
13 Cause of fart's success on date (4)
14 Somersault and drop off backwards, tits beginning to get pert (8)
16 On-screen activity? Bastard cheek! (4)
18/25 Maybe David Cameron's attempt to hide nothing look (4,4)
19 'Road to nowhere' suitably clued as 'Conservative leader' (3-2-3)
21 See 6 Down 22 Fan of CIA in terrible trouble (10)
24 Top Labour and intensely remorseful Tory leaders keeping quiet (10)
25 See 18 26 Race to hide member in rest break (2,5)
27 Bill has nothing left, yet somehow a devoted follower (7)

Down
2 Expert wittering on? Not b–— likely! (8)
3 An honour to cut journalist's plant (5)
4 KKK members want this drink with creamy fudge (9)
6/21 Still a glow from this pathetic erection, however restrained? (5,4)
7 For now beastly husband's caught in trickery (9)
8 Who'd be advised by lawyer to take a different line in court? (6)
9 Lice virtually spread by China – disaster that's barely covered by most campaigning politicians (7,6)
15 Lying for Republicans in Alabama, say (9)
16 Is beset by 'testicle twitch' – furious, having gone so (9)
17 Labour leader fared badly in hot temperature – which he strongly discourages (4,4)
20 Be smarter than to publicly declare Oscar Wilde gay? (6)
22 Is getting drowned in drink one way to form a union? (5)
23 Le Pen wants agreement initially for European head to overturn country (5)


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