Crossword for Thu, 17/Apr/2014

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Across
1: Reportedly viewed some of play (5)

4: Last brute buckles under counter arguments (9)

8: Nothing we have to pay (3)

9: Exciting object getting rent by stream (9)

11: Law office biggie shows average golf score, returning dollars for quarters? (7)

12: Fools with packs outside emergency room (7)

13: Thats sensible; has the eagle perhaps landed? (4-2-5)

15: Half disapprove of old king (3)

16: 23% of Scandinavians backing leaders (3)

18: One later enters, like, with matching sides (11)

22: Man sees bananas in a bunch (2,5)

23: Spotted by a large number - church interior (7)

24: Form of denial mistaken as yin/yang (9)

25: Cot is unmade for short month in fall (3)

26: Sanctioned half of values I saw (9)

27: A sample makes sense (5)

Down
1: Condescended to dopes outrageously (7)

2: One might be uplifted if a cockney spoke of arts such as opera. (7)

3: Former color no longer available? (7)

4: Pinker and harder to find (5)

5: Reciprocal statement admitting a bit of trickery with baseball stat (9)

6: Smash top off strange fruit with speed (7)

7: Increase a nutmeg's nuttiness? (7)

10: Property initially in annuity settlement survived estate tax (5)

14: Giddy Texan rube gets out of hand (9)

16: Wives' strange ideas (5)

17: No time for metal in name only (7)

18: Not all colleges say education is attempted (7)

19: Half of them should have had an idea (7)

20: Judges playing conkers? (7)

21: Baby's things even discovered in past (7)

23: Heedless of window screen (5)





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