Times COD Bonus Puzzle #003
by Anax

Across

1Christmas month and poor sales are common (8)
5Flirt with bloke, without the usual introductions (4,2)
9Convenience food finished in hurry under raised beams (8)
10In Scotland one might say it's OK to be intimate (6)
12Had time to tour quiet capital city (8)
13Number one clothes horse answering rider's call (4)
16Spectacular Labour win - coo! - by Marxist of various hues (7-8)
18Play to be ticked off in review? (4,4,2,5)
19Team were triumphant (4)
20Old medicine from first mate, from little bottles (8)
24Radio broadcast covers end of Martian invasion (6)
25Took a tube while sleeping? (8)
26Racer understood to have secured wheels (2-4)
27Harmful substance that's mostly found in fresh lemon (8)

Down

1They start digging and find their nuts (4)
2Weight and volume wrong (5)
3Artists supporting modern treatment of AIDS in Ethiopia (5,5)
4Minefield still conceals incendiary material under fuse (6,6)
6No turkey sandwiches left. That's the limit! (4)
7Shot for supplying good dope? (5,4)
8Churchman's desperate prayer, having trapped wind (10)
11Blurred outline can be too faint (12)
14Being playful, mad for some oral? (10)
15Hand over all evidence that monarch occupied throne? (5,5)
17From perversion to eroticism, in some way equal? (9)
21Mythological being with one tail and nine heads (5)
22One runs after old man to see match (4)
23Pin-up left to support union agreement (4)

Solution

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