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Independent 6914

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ACROSS

1              Hint of chased article here, possibly (8,4)

10           Fashionable to follow not quite dead language (5)

11           Darfur set to deteriorate? That’s criminal (9)

12           Question swapping sides in lessening of hostilities (4)

13           Socialist article in Paris – not much of a sensation in France (4-6)

15           I’d Post Office located in perfect centre (8)

16           A poor fist being made of sprinter’s initial slow speed (6)

19           Director and midget boss, heartless fools (6)

20           This, in old-fashioned terms, is about to employ revolutionary verse form (8)

22           Singer to tear into whisky when producing folk song (6,4)

23           A sprite turned – into an insect (4)

25           Excessive speechifying tumbling from Al Gore or Bush, ultimately (9)

26           Form of radiation in West, say, producing colour (5)

27           Espionage work backed region in the wars (4-8)

DOWN

2              Side missing leader may be drooping (4)

3              Stimulated in effect mostly after injection of a stimulant (8)

4              Hideout erected beside bridge (6)

5              Bounder I’d upset a little, overturning lightweight vehicle (6,4)

6              Collection that’s the work of many hands? (9,5)

7              King coming between Queen and gold? That’s a mistake (5)

8              One with lines drawn either side of motorway at an unfortunate moment (3-5)

9              All gets dredged up in describing rider? (8-6)

14           Spoiled a BBC 7 book: Life on the Shoreline (6,4)

17           Politician to strike dissolute rake about women (8)

18           Panic over elevator? It’s a piece of cake (8)

21           Boy taking volume from official record collection (6)

22           Stomach upset: pass a lot of one form of water (5)

24           Broads losing source – a taste of things to come? (4)

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