Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 11/02/2015

Wednesday’s puzzle...
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Cryptic crossword 11/02/2015

ACROSS

1 Making a statement on hoarding (11)

9 Refuse articles about main artery (5)

10 One can be riding back on it (7-4)

11 Earthquake centre? (5)

12 Write motto above building in America (8)

14 Storyteller’s rant and roar disturbing (8)

15 Tom sang from within (7)

17 Speech on modern item of clothing (7)

20 Part of shoe to cover part of part of the foot (3-5)

21 Shallow type in corner with old record (4-4)

24 In bank Ronald exchanged money (5)

25 Having sound commonsense on top (5-6)

26 Seafood newsman disguised (5)

27 Connect one to another retreat Neil organised (11)

DOWN

2 Spur road (5)

3 Enthusiastic approval for showy display (5)

4 Opinions considered by son at the end (8)

5 Apocryphal lady from South America with some old Indian money (7)

6 Collected gun, the lady’s limited edition (8)

7 First boat in the Arctic should make a start (5,3,3)

8 Place where goods are manufactured _ and sold (7,4)

12 Fine boot on the field at Rugby (7,4)

13 Canons nosed around for extremely short periods of time (11)

16 I go for a madrigal composed by clown (8)

18 Make out meaning of price he’d fabricated (8)

19 Exist before company of herons crowd round (7)

22 Doctor breaks law with slow, lengthy utterance (5)

23 Make a selection, but only incompletely (5)

Tuesday’s solution

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Across: 1 Get short shrift, 9 Tibetan, 10 Lucerne, 11 Peep, 12 Frail, 13 Aunt, 16 Sausage, 17 Gather, 19 Maxims, 22 Repulse, 25 Guys, 26 Henna, 27 Stop, 30 Naivest, 31 Adipose, 32 Get a handle on it.

Down: 1 Gatepost, 2 Tableau, 3 Huts, 4 Run free, 5 and 6 Selling race, 7 Fortune, 8 Pesto, 14 Canid, 15 Stupa, 18 Deepfelt, 20 Any time, 21 Spectra, 22 and 29 Rank and file, 23 Let down, 24 Agony, 28 Mega