Crossword for Fri, 20/Jun/2014

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Across
1: Great Dane running about outside caf (3-6)

6: Old Mongoloid to farewell religious leader (5)

9: Paraphrasing 'A Certain Sport': 'Wait till next year!' (13)

10: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)

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

12: One politician's a brat (3)

14: Ruby ran off to marry after a couple of events came to light again (11)

16: Black arts and demons concerned with Homer's issue? (4,7)

20: Neither partner finds way out of country (3)

21: Hoarded tiny bits of dryness (11)

23: Telekinesis pinches Albanian coin (3)

24: Scenery has to get down by starting 12-across (7,6)

26: Turns violin over to get pointers? (5)

27: Eddy's mother hugging Slater wildly (9)
Down
1: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

2: Driverless wagon approaches Y with great pains (5)

3: Rear oat variety as a way to break up the soil (7)

4: Break up the rock group from hell. (7)

5: Poles suffer internally - they're hard (5)

6: Hikers' path around Virginia is hard work (7)

7: Working up here? Not in the next episode (9)

8: Severely criticize cook (5)

10: Go up cedar's first branch (5)

13: Ship's official drinking tea with buyer (9)

15: Reportedly hoist Jeter of the NY Yankees (5)

17: Tranquillises extremely senile escorts (7)

18: Incomprehensible English is the sign of a professional (7)

19: Puzzle with no more significance abroad (7)

21: Challenged Ruby after district attorney (5)

22: Core principle of taxi-o-meter? (5)

23: Between them, both sides have time for a drink. (5)

25: Thumb Drum? (3)




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