Crossword for Thu, 3/Nov/2011

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Across
1: Rapidity with which heat's dissipated (5)

3: Increase in force may finish in soccer riot (9)

8: As an aid to memory for broken men, first mode harmonics hold no danger. (9)

11: A clown circled at a distance (5)

12: Clothilda is carrying a parcel (3)

13: Word in a lexicon describing kind of number (7)

14: The time before the first woman (3)

15: Challenge the bench in retaliation. (13)

18: Shredded chad, he decrees, is one ingredient (7,6)

20: Nothing we have to pay (3)

22: Ship sails with masts surrounded by doom (7)

23: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

24: Peeled, making Pop embarrassed? (5)

25: Companion to take care of worker (9)

26: Uncommon fly on rare plant (5,4)

27: Scheme conclusion for jet set (5)
Down
1: Mortified humans - fifty per cent felt great pity (7)

2: Show singular glasses? (9)

4: Clearly notes Earths at a particular compass point (4-5-4)

5: Creep closer to girl, fight cold back (5)

6: Plate through the nose for lasso (5)

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

9: Moving round to booming (7)

10: Dine out and stop being vague (13)

16: Surprisingly, neither was in place. (7)

17: A cinerama restored examples of a country's quirks (9)

18: Air transport for the lumberjack? (7)

19: Former leader's relative with bit of tension in stomach (4, 3)

21: Before time like an aristocrat? (5)

22: Some people differ about Castro (5)




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