Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 23/04/2013

Tuesday’s puzzle...

Across

1 Cabbage, for example, offered with sauce when I’m around (8)

5 Plan covering the year dot is old hat (6)

10 Flooring made to size? It’s a work of art (7)

11 Deduce New Orleans is hell (7)

12 The Spanish sickbay used for temporary convenience (5)

13 Wartime punishment fits the crime with capital act (3,6)

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14 A double-edged blade might be an advantage - or not (3,3,4,4)

17 Ignores the celebrity in the slime who is up to expectations (4,3,7)

21 FA history rewritten to show early bloomer (9)

23 Ms Ayres and father visit grassland in South America (5)

24 Makes fond conclusion before listening (7)

25 Leading work put straight (7)

26 Say half of fetish can be admitted through security (6)

27 Has prepared raw rough leather (8)

Down

1 Locked the door, perhaps, when wife ran off with another man (6)

2 Forgetting names, getting confused, I take first letter (7)

3 Support discount to get more hay later on (6,3)

4 Turns to the important matter of damage to the quarry (4,2,3,5)

6 Propose to be away from A&E (5)

7 Spanish expression of surprise from dear Italian business graduate (7)

8 Overtake, in plain language, slipping out of place (8)

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9 Be fond of putting on a show, mixing cha with tedious talk (4,2,3,1,4)

15 Geyser making excited leap (3,6)

16 Those who mock are initially short on funds (8)

18 Fed up with diet for a change (5,2)

19 Cameron laboured to find love (7)

20 Wild West partner working for amnesty (6)

22 Formal agreements to capitalize on growth product (5)