Managed to crack Skuldugger today in double quick time without a hiccough.
ACROSS
1
Crude ramshackle
slum in
Cyprus (6)
CLUMSY {C{SLUM*}Y}
4 Rock music: primarily awful blare (6) MARBLE {M}{BLARE*}
9 Object used chiefly in hold-ups! (4) BELT [CD]
11 Queer-looking? Stifle it reflexively (6) ITSELF*
12 Well-rounded, we'd gone out and about to get displayed (8) UNROLLED weLL-ROUNDEd*
13 Found vigorous enjoyment took the edge off hidden wound (9) ESTABLISH {rE{STAB}LISH}
15 Vessel, seaworthy even after a century (4) RAFT cRAFT
16 Revolutionary fruitcakes take your breath away (4) SNUB <=
17 See trivia as a hodgepodge of sorts (9) VARIETIES*
21 After children migrated, West European got doubly large improvement on knocker (8) DOORBELL {DOORB<=}{E}{L}{L}
22 "…happens to belong to us," admits Cuban counter-espionage chief (6) OCCURS {O{C}{C}URS}
24 Quirky
musical acquires strange
image (10)
SIMULACRUM {MUSICAL*}{RUM}
Forgettable new word for me25 Finished a number of deliveries (4) OVER [DD] I liked the white towel in the toon!
26 Stared openmouthed with surprise at first, then caught one's breath (6) GASPED {GA{S}PED}
27 Design vain venture boasts (6) INVENT [T]
DOWN
1 Career actress regularly produces new work (7) CREATES {CaReEr AcTrEsS}
2 Adjusting nut that is loose (5) UNTIE {NUT*}{IE}
3 Wicked king imbibed
enough booze to make one drunk (7)
SKINFUL {S{K}INFUL}
5 Wonder at a heartless, stupid fury (6) ADMIRE {A}{DiM}{IRE}
6 Sick in the brain, twisted, extremely deviant, but magnificent (9) BRILLIANT {BR{ILL}IAN*}{T}
7 Drunken melee at noontime leads to fire, perhaps (7) ELEMENT {MELEE*}{N}{T}
8
Regularly goes rambling
where criminals hang (6,7)
ROGUES GALLERY*
In army units, the area in the officers mess where photographs of ex CO's are displayed is also informally known as the rogues gallery.14 Blue-coloured rings you discovered inside marine complexes (9) AQUARIUMS {AQUA}{RI{U}MS}
16 Silence due to performance (7) SHOWING {SH}{OWING}
18
Superhero who might become rusty? (4,3)
IRON MAN [CD]
19 Grave veterans leaving the front broken (7) EARNEST vETERANS*
20 Bounder thrown into lake for some time (6) DECADE {DE{CAD}E}
23 Not far away, in the outskirts of Cologne, the sun rises (5) CLOSE {Col{LOS<=}ognE}
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