Crossword for Sun, 19/May/2013

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Across
1: Exotic cider as cocktail (7)

5: Musical work for double act with nothing new (7)

9: I shall be sick! (3)

10: Questionable realtor robs preacher (4,7)

11: Bestows clothes (5)

12: Name successor in speech? (7)

13: Mere chance of depression interrupting peace (11)

16: A representative may be a scamp (3)

18: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

19: Support sign for subordinates (11)

20: Dopey met hero with a proposition (7)

23: Scrimmage as Confederate general introduces himself to Tarzan? (5)

24: Rebel action disrupted festival (11)

25: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

26: Country refuge for prison's last under-jailer (7)

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

Down
2: In the act an organ is brought forth (9)

3: Except for last couple, Crosby croons passages (9)

4: Highways or turning spots (5)

5: Damn turncoat left country (9)

6: Cut Chicago ballplayer's training? (5)

7: Writer deserts pea-green match (5)

8: Fools the Proletariat after banning Marx's _Capital_ (5)

9: Tucks in untidy singlets, missing the tail end (7)

14: Escorted place for investment? (2,7)

15: Gray's line about young animals (9)

16: Head of Immigration leads rare uprising in tiny travel plan (9)

17: Faint pout encompasses beast of burden (4,3)

20: Silent, cat backs away from it (5)

21: Outspoken one-time Houston gridiron pro and mathematician (5)

22: Caress one grand puzzlemaster (5)

23: Do tell! A puzzle found in a cornfield? (5)





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