Crossword for Sat, 21/Dec/2013

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Across
1: Sound of river crossing (3)

3: Think at length about lost planet, comet (11)

8: Opening event in cruise: Iran art display (7-6)

11: Unprepared, a little gerbil darted the wrong way (2-3)

12: Kansas University in Highland Lake offers one opening (9)

13: Surrounded, small insect crawled into cover (7)

15: Hearing sis nose around (7)

16: Huge, brave lion (3,4)

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

22: Upset with fashionable kind of coat I wore (down) (9)

23: Children nicely holding back secret (5)

25: Finish suddenly, like an oboe? (1, 4, 2, 3, 3)

26: Quite put out, doctor axes red tape (11)

27: Five kills one. (3)

Down
1: 'Look at quickly,' I cry loudly (7)

2: Best Southern general retreats riding cross-country (5)

4: They can't reproduce sounds like an operating system (7)

5: Lauds professor's initial salary increases (7)

6: Violently storming while on the high seas (9)

7: Partially hear the noise coming from the ground (7)

9: Mechanical worker pushing start button in the depths of the plant (5)

10: At first, actors I directed did poorly (5)

14: Wildly game sycophant heard 16-downs successors (9)

16: A group of soldiers demolish a bridge. (7)

17: Tunes aware of dirigible (7)

18: Eastern oxcart confounds blackmailer (7)

19: Plastic shelf for meat (5)

20: Bond leads in The World Is Not Enough (5)

21: One true turning on the way (2,5)

24: Dan is back to Iowa with a famous gymnast (5)





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