Crossword for Sun, 23/Apr/2017

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Across
1: State proviso (9)

5: Siphon windy painter? (5)

8: Defame how I live in 16-across local (5)

9: See one store walled by brick, mostly (9)

10: Composer employed in hotel garage (5)

11: Date for Roman candles to be ordered (7)

12: Uncharacteristically, Dickenson pens uplifting romantic ballad (5)

14: Attacking garland, certain it was not tied down (2,7)

17: A language one may read about (9)

18: Expel National Service Union leaders and heartbreak will follow (5)

19: Distended, having bolted a stew (7)

21: Publication for children (5)

23: Stifle ill-arranged artist's arrangement (5,4)

25: Requires reporting massages (5)

26: Void three stones (5)

27: Foretold that the wine would be finished (9)

Down
1: California 'Wine Doctrine' amounts to a religion (9)

2: There is no commoner old coin (5)

3: Evil colleague, for example, breaking in contrary to law (9)

4: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

5: Laughable Democratic line-up (5)

6: Measuring exotic flowers (9)

7: Fires partner in investment firm, we hear (5)

9: Encrusted with crustaceans, with salt stripped out? (9)

11: Pantomime character having to join forces around Lake Superior (9)

13: Cry at nothing and hope to be only slightly cowardly? (9)

15: Fashionable fragrance, fundamentally (2,7)

16: Shocked ensemble leader with ascending note during concert (9)

19: Pour dripping over tack (5)

20: Perhaps a bathroom contractor is mentioned to a former president (5)

22: Newsman Bradley accepts men, correct? (5)

24: A representative may be a scamp (3)





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