ACROSS

 1 Hill Billies ? (8, 5)

10 How things are usually sliced? (7)

11 Number that is left? (7)

12 He ends up a sort of clerk. (7)

13 Stories never ended on such nights. (7)

14 What makes the sisters so disturbed? (7)

15 Hard sort of a tree to find us in. (7)

16 Concentrates. ( 7 )

20 Pointed saw. (7)

23 Call back before you've dined. (7)

24 Enters and listens. (7)

25 How to make a couple of bucks. (7)

26 How paper might be bought? (7)

27 -------- with cursory. (7, 6)

DOWN

 2 Proffered actions. (7)

 3 Minus? (7)

 4 Like kinds beget this. (7)

 5 Ivan ran into it. (7)

 6 Alternate business affairs. (7)

 7 It makes sense to have Tabby climb over a slab. (7)

 8 Oyster? ( 6 , 2, 5)

 9 Mistaken kisses ? (13)

17 Kitty over the water, over the water. (7)

18 Busts out of a U. S. state. (7)

19 House kind is not loud. (7)

20 The first statesman? (7)

21 A disgraceful state to be in. (7)

22 Relations in Gaelic, responsible for many novel things. (7)

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