Crossword for Sun, 27/May/2012

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Across
1: Multiple notes keeping youth leader youthful (4-5)

5: Got excited by unusual tulip (3,2)

8: Harm from dent encompassing front of exterior trim (9)

10: Headache starts to reveal a body part (5)

11: Sometimes they mischievously spray-paint footwear, making the top violet (7)

12: Eskimo intuitions are half-developed (5)

13: Running back almost blew grand (5)

14: Simple addition in cult film (4,5)

16: Firework for Kennedy ends right in a hollow part (9)

20: Parade's quirky charm (5)

21: Troubled tenor with a transposition (2,3,5)

22: Decisive curl twisting around spy body (7)

23: Runs in place without a top--without a top OR bottom (5)

24: A driven person, Ness left wearing a beeper (9)

26: Do as I say in short retreat (5)

27: Perhaps the sound of the beach is really rock? (9)

Down
1: Tender command (3)

2: It's on the coast of Australia - a tree discovered by science (6,3)

3: Vessel 'Destiny' surrounds piece of equipment (7)

4: Explains how to get rid of rear ends! (7)

5: Intrinsically, lilac queries development of wood varnish (7)

6: Pay for remedy (5)

7: Bend in Pennsylvania court case related to revered founder (11)

9: Measure action to follow (5)

11: Trashy dime novel about American sex symbol who's not all there? (5,2,4)

15: Strange set-back overwhelms blundering bravado (7-2)

17: Aboard a ship is shipping magnate (7)

18: Twice take heart over raven writers so-called ground parrots (7)

19: Adds money owed to the government in hearing (5)

20: Mum gets customers some guns (7)

21: Too bad about first of tests for strong man (5)

25: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)





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