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Across
7 DRILL AROUND GREENLAND'S TIP! – one of Trump's preoccupations (6)
8 Guiding principle has Democrat on notice perhaps around Republican (8)
10 Campish habit? (4,5)
11 A strict believer in truth as 'idiotic' (5)
12 Knocked back one adult drink like a military type (7)
14/6/22dn. Shroud to go here? Never! (4,2,4,4)
17 Nothing gained by "hot and cold" Truss's comeback? (5)
18 Bribe disheartened bobby to trap union leader (3)
19 Wrong robots etc for the occupied territory (5)
20 Is put off by dickhead's rash (6)
21 Appreciative communication from cooler: "Bloke's sound" (3,4)
22 Dotty's through squeezing member! (5)
24 Puzzle lacking? Don't mention it! (2,7)
26 Forced Leeds, etc. to ditch candidate (8)
27 Let's wave on having sex (6)
1 Press often played with by Trump (4)
2 Conservatives unhappy with 9/18's editorial craft? (10)
3 Woeful tale of bastards (Conservative) (3,5)
4 "Yen's in shit" – China (4)
5 A craving to snap: "Dom is a pain!" (10)
6 See 14ac.
7 Like the politician's reductive announcements of crunch measure? (4-4)
9/18dn. Demonic Bake-off host, at first a staunch right-winger (4,8)
13 Putin's thing: breaking arms limit, crushing independence (10)
15 Ex-president's ire seen to explode on taking question (10)
16 A PM told off on accepting Cyclops as moderator (8)
18 See 9dn.
21 Goes limp – Labour leader quits, so swells (4)
22 See 14ac.
23 Screw up by English university (4)
25 By which a celeb might get around making millions in fuel hike (4)
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