puzzle # 2 solution
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ACROSS

1 In silence give one's imprimatur.  [7]

5 Funny rhyming doctor (not really) doctor dress us. [7]

10  Odd notion of Dali's crime picking up from  all points. [15]

11  Food or medicine in the arm.   [4]

13 A portion of the Mafia's con games were a  ludicrous failure. [6]

14 An Eastern scholar  spoke critically about a (word) play.  [6]

15  As a tyrant no one tops Ed in backwardness. [6]

17 A condition (commonly of the ear?) that attacks you.  [6]

18 Some wee person crying. [7]

20 What you really hope your Scandinavian  god/doctor won't use  to operate on your chest with.  [6]

22 Mystical man is back in The Big Oyster Band. [4]

23 One Martian -- Ian -- hums excitedly in praise of  Earth  dwellers.  [15]

26 A rebel without publicity on the first Saturday goes back on his word. [7]

27 Curiously heed a horse at Ascot to become an intellectual.  [7]

DOWN

2 A playful Zuni mime will shoot you to prevent illness. [8]

3 Proclaimation naming it the best cider back in 1908. [6]

4 Not an ophthalmologist, but he tries to get a person to see things his way.  [4,6]

6 The audiologist wrote a list.  [4]

7 An amigo, 'e crazy crazy about 'imself. [8]

8 Be morose and bad tempered because skull is too small and smasshed.  [4]
9
Rose from the pharmacy;  a holy healer. [8,5]

12 Doctor imitates the first Good Samaritan and alleviates pain.  [9]

14 Does this kind of doctor really know what she's doing?  [10]

16 If we included that wacky looking relativy guy we could claim to be special men, but without him I'm just a typical example of my class and so are you.  [8]

18 I say, if she had to dry up and get wrinkly we should all do it.!  [6]

19 Say, has Gigi gone to get the Yuletide tipple? [6]

21 Cut the top off top off top and the end off end. [4]

24 The first name of a famous rapper with six faces.  [3]

25 What twenty-four would become if he melted and mixed with dirt.  [3]
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