Crossword for Wed, 22/Dec/2010

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Across
1: Girl hatches subterfuge in prison tower (11)

7: Partial approval for eggs (3)

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

10: In favor of echoing game call (3)

11: Issue of number one detergent brand being withdrawn (7)

12: Aliens set off (3)

14: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

16: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)

17: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

19: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

22: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

23: Record unusually green ornamental centrepiece (7)

24: Later round without an opponent (3)

25: Put hot cocoa out for someone glued to the TV (5,6)

26: Call for help oddly stops (3)

27: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

Down
1: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

2: I have followed a coach, shouting insults (7)

3: Dilapidated city slum without question a source of sectariansim. (7)

4: Expose the French heavy weight (3,2)

5: Something fishy: verbal Brooklyn women a hallmark of Notre Dame (9)

6: Farmland female comes back covered with baked clay (7)

7: When things are less busy in very loud plant in Oklahoma (3-4)

8: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

13: Inspects old radical for a moment (5, 6)

15: Page with scope for truism (9)

18: Exploding sausages? (7)

19: Strange nectars induce dreamlike states. (7)

20: Flower making a comeback in a phenomenal display (7)

21: Where Handel wrote short measure on organ (7)

23: City train bears the woman's name (5)

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





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