Crossword for Wed, 6/Jun/2012

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Across
1: Spearfish in installments? (9)

7: Get into the archeology scene. (3)

9: I am reported to leer (3)

10: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)

11: Cut up after having gambled, with death perhaps? (5)

13: Heard songs about milk and cheese and buns? (9)

14: Tarpon's head is covered by more opulent kind of scale (7)

16: Plastic strap-on users (7)

18: It's a plain pastry with a serving of raspberry and some light stuff (7)

20: Weapon company accommodating listener (7)

21: Sport for the crook, with minimum weight (9)

23: De Bergerac hugged bird on return (5)

24: Discounting losing one's sense of humour? (8,3)

25: Louse can rise (3)

26: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

27: Everything, including meat, in stew is nutritious (9)
Down
1: Smokey's threat turning up deep in northern parts (5,4)

2: Top card? Excellent! (3)

3: We hear he pillaged while he played. (5)

4: Observed no Knight (5)

5: Putting your foot in it may incite Royal intervention (7)

6: Radical is forced into deal with legal representative (9)

7: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

8: Takes hold of travel-bags (5)

12: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

15: Starshine somehow loses its shine (9)

17: Dairy stock entails wrangling around 2000 (9)

19: Making it as One Nation (7)

21: Fir tree cut down for kind of wood (5)

22: I grumble about supermodel Campbell (5)

23: Blunder into tall African mammal, with no infrared (5)

25: Fool to join recital (3)




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