Crossword for Fri, 30/Nov/2012

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Across
1: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

3: Accommodate bear (3,2)

6: Abundant specimen doffing cap (5)

8: Ratty cavalier redressed in proper horseman's uniform. (7, 6)

10: Standard style of music rejected (3)

11: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)

13: Essential money (7)

16: Italian rice: boil, stir too (7)

17: Pair are only a short distance from the dance (3-4)

18: Hardy's first note about novel heroine: she's entertaining (7)

19: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

21: Heavy metal group X (4)

23: Guess what the benighted marksman did? (4,2,3,4)

25: Selected last of acrylic socks (5)

26: Batsman leaves cry-baby on the wagon (5)

27: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)
Down
1: Go over the highlights of a racehorse's comeback (5)

2: When Eve rued core? Not once! (5)

3: One who leads many after something irrational. (5)

4: Attempt test (3)

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

6: Foolishly I air spats of beekeepers (9)

7: Happy faces disturb economist (9)

9: Returning, some felt it necessary to provide grounds for legal claims (7)

12: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

13: Whip a pick-me-up to cause stupor (9).

14: Bravery of marine figurehead?? (7)

15: Symbol of hierarchy to church holds no value (5,4)

20: Theme eradicated partly by an eastern ruler (5)

21: Block militia raiding the Popes office (5)

22: Weapon in Clue game (5)

24: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)




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