Crossword for Sun, 8/Jan/2012

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Across
2: Measure ordering carving in relief (9)

7: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

9: Asian river ordeal; it's upset manufacturer (13)

10: Intimidated, we tucked into fish (5)

11: Head of Immigration leads rare uprising in tiny travel plan (9)

12: Standard style of music rejected (3)

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

14: Pauses awkwardly after error but steadies nerves (5,2)

16: Text, Inc., bankrupted, is gone (7)

20: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

22: Escalating naked conflict (3)

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

24: Starts to read each chapter after pausing for review (5)

25: Ships use up aid at sea; remain in a grave situation (4,2,7)

26: Perform part of play (3)

27: Smokey's threat turning up deep in northern parts (5,4)
Down
1: They say the headmaster should be guided by this (9)

2: One providing funds for last one in debt (7)

3: Be supplied with wings, over and above (7)

4: Leisure centre 6-down, storing one like bricks (7)

5: Guess I'm gettin' old and wise at last (7)

6: Holds records for drinking. (7)

7: Upended Sparta's rulers (7)

8: Before time like an aristocrat? (5)

15: Running across adventurous sap, I rappel backwards at the same rate (4,5)

17: Shout it out loud - alternatively, mutter quietly (7)

18: Turning back, Sid went in to astonish naturalists (7)

19: A hundred are guaranteed to get this hairstyle (7)

20: Corrected and finished after mid-December (7)

21: New England river flowing with less constraint (7)

22: Draw one above Indian hut (7)

23: Run around near a stadium (5)




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