Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 12/08/15

Wednesday’s puzzle
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ACROSS

1 What to do with glue to be persistent (5,4,2)

9 A ship capsized, how stupid! (5)

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10 A constraint ruining business deal (11)

11 Amanda changed some of the accommodation (5)

12 Not to mention minor infringement with an amount of money lent, say (3,5)

14 Access again to golf links (8)

15 Word one is going to say (7)

17 Test about four or six of little value (7)

20 Innermost layer of crop Dean cultivated (8)

21 Boston’s social gathering? (3,5)

24 Some parvenu escaped from meeting-place (5)

25 Dream about to record unknown science of the skin (11)

26 Hundred and four moved to island (5)

27 With forethought almost plan something in advance (11)

DOWN

2 One entering plant on Hebridean island (5)

3 Caught girl on Hebridean island (5)

4 We put a penny on lines of guns (8)

5 Unsteady animal inside outskirts of Torquay (7)

6 Do ration ingredients for cooking (8)

7 Ventilate passageway along which flying is allowed (3-8)

8 Sherpa’s revised science of the way something is worded (11)

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12 Do worshippers deserve medals for protracted period of worship? (4,7)

13 Unusual to be out of this (3,8)

16 Old dandy Edwin, excited, hurried (6,2)

18 Is unable in a rush to have retracted (8)

19 Choose one parent to be the most favourable (7)

22 Distribute 39 books (5)

23 Drunk held closely (5

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