Crossword for Sat, 26/Nov/2011

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Across
1: Starts to prepare every kind of European tea (5)

4: Cuts taxes (7)

8: Teaching assistants run into hospital facility for shocker (5)

10: Italian article held by terrible regular or irregular soldier (9)

12: I shall be sick! (3)

13: Exegesis of clue an idiot misunderstood (11)

14: Spring inside proper old theatre (7)

16: Deck out detective, putting pants on backwards (5,2)

18: Frantically parries swords (7)

20: Jargon in a saloon (7)

21: Mary-Jane crochets her Pop a jumper (11)

23: Thumb Drum? (3)

24: In a dance, little do plenty (9)

25: Centre of diamond is shrouded in fog (5)

26: English scenes reproduced for 'Nature' (7)

27: Too bad about first of tests for strong man (5)
Down
1: Applies root of turnips (4,2,3)

2: Weird eastern lake (5)

3: I left bear in pain it was the curdled milk! (7)

5: Press has no right to chase after head nun in purity measure, being a flower (9)

6: Awful din; ill effects were her own doing (4-9)

7: Bridge over white mass of fish eggs (5)

9: Pal teased about crazy snack food (6,7)

11: Changes orders and loses 100 (5)

15: Went ahead and used the power button (7,2)

17: Frolicking, pals-y team? (9)

19: Demonstrated the way in which to keep poles apart (5)

20: Conifer in a Mediterranean republic by the sound of it (7)

21: Mark got older, it sounds like (5)

22: Dance and drink with couple of barflies (5)




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