The Butler Cryptic #3
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Good times cut short, true chaos for years to come (6)
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Across
  1. 1A
    Good times cut short, true chaos for years to come (6)
  2. 5A
    Put money in and turn five into a thousand - that's how you get taken in (8)
  3. 9A
    Mixed spices, sign of a leap year baby (6)
  4. 10A
    Off-pitch attitude not so great (8)
  5. 11A
    Fine lines on note penned by celeb (7)
  6. 12A
    Go on a journey carried by extra velocity (6)
  7. 13A
    Taking week off, messing around on computer? That makes two of us! (7,7)
  8. 15A
    Engineering at a small scale can only go on with the bananas (14)
  9. 21A
    May this setter loudly drink at a tiki bar? (3,3)
  10. 22A
    Arrangement of shots made with Polish gin blend (7)
  11. 24A
    Cliché allowed to be retracted - quickly move the matter along? (8)
  12. 25A
    Film produced in one take with great ending nabbing Oscar (1,5)
  13. 26A
    Empty cooler to get cosy in, warming up later? (8)
  14. 27A
    Plunders dessert without starter, gets seconds (6)
Down
  1. 2D
    Join forces, briefly, with small military groups (5)
  2. 3D
    Endless nuclear fusion, first and foremost nothing contaminated (7)
  3. 4D
    Greek character's been regularly entertaining Penny with massage of oils (7)
  4. 5D
    Acting pointer: improvise to some degree (7)
  5. 6D
    Get nice pants passed down (7)
  6. 7D
    Part of a word, not the French one they are taught in schools (7)
  7. 8D
    Hidden message in tricky teaser, one that can be cracked (6,3)
  8. 14D
    Listen and hear bank close (4,2,3)
  9. 16D
    Nothing supporting system that might save the planet (3,4)
  10. 17D
    Capital shown as three times as much to auditor (7)
  11. 18D
    Sets up secret arrangement with one on the inside (7)
  12. 19D
    Higher volume of studying not very uplifting (7)
  13. 20D
    US city with declaration of intent very loudly dismissed (4,3)
  14. 23D
    Bird goes cuckoo circling duck (5)
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