Crossword for Wed, 1/Feb/2017

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Across
1: Dexterity is an insult, so we hear (7)

5: Weary of ingredients in butterfat, I guess (7)

8: Mixed race had become a farce (7)

9: Sing gist of laudatory ode loudly (5)

10: Louse can rise (3)

11: Associate to give 25-down up, cryptically? (7)

13: Gorilla taking head off at it's base! (3)

15: Often visit hot female relative (5)

17: Record left by teacher in Siam (5)

20: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)

21: Lawman sees woman with guitar hook (7)

22: Revolves around a star. (3)

23: Some gambling couple no longer in bed! (3-2)

25: Some Oriental craft for old U.S. President Eric (7)

26: Meatier concoction from, say, Dubai (7)

27: Food provider for tom and two queens (7)
Down
1: Not much time for supporters (7)

2: Confer higher rank upon former adversary's first lieutenant (5)

3: Briefly viewed bigot's heart, opened like a boil (7)

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

5: Cook small fish. (3)

6: Heroism to vex top foodstore (9)

7: Determined listener finds refuge. (7)

12: Stimulant produced as choir paid off (11)

14: Old Italian composer Alessandro Mark left Tait injured (9)

16: Oblique demand for a new church (7)

18: Old French act involving British eccentric (7)

19: Uncrate 'Rampaging Horseman'? (7)

22: Natural talent in opening measures of Franz Liszt melody (5)

24: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)




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