Cryptic Crossword - The Scotsman 04/04/13

Thursday’s puzzle...

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1 Can’t let hearing be developed by keeping the place warm (7,7)

9 Ten went back to hold down a job at a broadcasting organisation (7)

10 Top star left film award in a musical toy (7)

11 Accusation coming from a Premier League mission (10)

12 Reminds one to run at a steady pace into square (4)

14 Swimming through the rain at Antwerp (6)

15 Weakening girl can get adopted by Yank (8)

17 Enjoying getting about 51 removed (8)

19 Did priest manage to display ingenuity? (6)

22 It’s great to have first game in the shade (4)

23 Concentrating on small brochure in retirement (10)

25 Easy-going person going onward, in case (7)

26 Along with a stake gain movement (7)

27 Turn train into lanes for tests (14)

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1 Includes small joints, with hesitation, in cargo vessels (9,5)

2 Having nothing to sell at auction, or very little (3,1,3)

3 Regions are forces to sort things out (10)

4 Want to be comparable to (4,2)

5 European firm had the good sense to be environmental (8)

6 Drop rent in some favourite areas (4)

7 New publication on witchcraft in African capital (7)

8 Was Prudence seeing into a remote point? (14)

13 Finishes off places before they are compensated (4,4,2)

16 Bent over, playing out-of-bounds in Cologne (8)

18 Ease up to land on the middle of arenas (7)

20 Get round a domed building (7)

21 Sound upright, but is narrow, in the main (6)

24 Boundary of a lake in some regions (4)

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