Crossword for Tue, 4/Mar/2014

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Across
1: Resolute British detectives in action (7)

5: Looked up to maid turning scarlet (7)

7: Ill-conceived encore run for Edward VIII, say (9)

8: Verne's incredible chutzpah (5)

10: Exhausted writer found in street (5)

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

13: Standard style of music rejected (3)

15: Result of sleeping in currently fashionable paintings (4,5)

16: Inmate Ian playing dead (9)

19: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

20: Miser manufactured Finn's kilt (9)

21: Examine good-looking man? Yes! (5)

22: Children nicely holding back secret (5)

23: Increases scales; ate sloppily (9)

24: Admire well-designed sceptre (7)

25: The grades of naval seamen (7)

Down
1: Ceases running features about Republican in serious trouble (4,7)

2: Working on mental topic? (13)

3: Subdue aunt, chasing Chief of Detectives (5)

4: Sound measure when Bec lied badly (7)

5: Circus performer in a European big top (7)

6: Reveals fatness I'm developing (9)

9: He explored star (7,6)

12: Does the wandering hero duly hostess perplex? (7)

14: Control, coerce, and strengthen (9)

17: Dryest arts die painfully (7)

18: Apprentice relinquishes heart to temptress (7)

21: Left a port near Dubrovnik (5)





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