Crossword for Thu, 12/May/2011

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Across
1: National official is here, carrying identification, after challenge overwhelms local center (4-9)

9: One appears at jetty to lead the way (7)

10: Ultimate given in recital by game show hostess (7)

11: Change at noon (5)

12: Ill, quite sour, and kind of blue (9)

13: Gradually reduce European Community requisitions for playback devices (4,9)

16: Deliver a sweetener to mix with your date? (5,4,4)

20: Energetically undid your toils (9)

23: Cite uncertainty about Heisenbergs original principle (5)

24: Sir Reed shot an American novelist (7)

25: Give in to clumsy one swallowing vegetables (7)

27: Ministers ordain art evil? I doctor a reversal (13)
Down
1: Sixpence for big cheese? (1.1.1.)

2: Couples posed for an intimate snapshot (5-2)

3: One asking for quiet guide (7)

4: Big Bird: 'Apologies--getting a late start' (5)

5: Children nicely holding back secret (5)

6: On the way with tureen, tripping over a section of orange (2,5)

7: Pitching ideas to yes men (7)

8: Instrument for beater caught with liquor (5,4)

13: Alto I somehow kept in the dark, back during interactive broadcasting (4,5)

14: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

15: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

16: Malady spoiled chorale (7)

17: Little singer returned, following band to total a hairy little mother with seating for one. (7)

18: A small vault is said to be round about the rail support (7)

19: Against that terrible, consuming war (7)

21: Father Brown's latest femme fatale (5)

22: Cycles within easy earshot (5)

26: Aliens set off (3)




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