Crossword for Wed, 20/Jun/2012

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Across
2: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

4: Stopped? No somehow deferred (9)

9: Wizards covered in liquor and beer...it might be for charity (7, 4)

10: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

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

13: Genuine hesitation in church after transgression (7)

14: Go in with singer Karen, forgetting fish (5)

17: Centre of diamond is shrouded in fog (5)

18: Saves and secures stranger (7)

20: Opening event in cruise: Iran art display (7-6)

23: Control escape (3)

24: Stimulant produced as choir paid off (11)

26: How imprisoned labourers showed friendship? (4,5)

27: Provoke Church of Scotland's absent leader (3)
Down
1: Jumps all over bees swarming rat (7)

2: Behind and down and out (3)

3: Top-flight hairstyle instead (9)

4: Knowing in advance about 101 here (9)

5: Abstract art is just one step.(5)

6: Part, or bring together (5)

7: 27-across about starting off 1-down world unconditionally (2,3,2,4)

8: Strange red item showing black mark (7)

12: Criticise a computer analysis of famous passage (6,5)

14: Wrong, or sure one is wrong (9)

15: Conductor of opera rising in encore (9)

16: Doctor gives a new vault to the potentate (7)

19: Hot, current--'Gent' by Coco? Refreshing! (7)

21: Come to Korea - Chinese part (5)

22: Britannia - she never has blanched (5)

25: Sort of uninitiated cheat (3)




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