No 9484, Thursday, 19 Mar 09, Sankalak

We are back with Sankalak's CW's. quite a smooth and easy outing today, not too much of head scratching
ACROSS
 1 - Money for new business, speculative, half proven, oddly true money (7,7) - VEN{TURE*} CAPITAL
 8 - Dish that leads to 40 winks in church (6) - C{ANAP}E They look really Yummy
 9 - Large space that is designed for a particular use (8) - ESPECIA*{L}
11 - See, in a spot her wisecracks are different (9) - OTHERWISE [T]
12 - Go for a holiday (5) - LEAVE [2]
13 - Group support in a bit of trouble (7) - SET{BACK}
15 - Investigation using a query in another form (7) - ENQUIRY*
17 - American engineer, diminished, serving no purpose (7) - US{E}LESS
19 - Student beginning to laud breadwinner (7) - L{EARNER}
21 - Salad vegetable planted in many acres simultaneously (5) - CRESS [T] Anyone knows what is the Indian market name for Cress?
23 - A code word deployed for a conifer product (5,4) - CEDAR WOOD*
25 - A game soldier with a written defence for his behaviour (8) - A{POLO}GI{A}
26 - A union is something to add enjoyment, including the dawn of love (6) – SP{L}ICE
27 - Giant gendarme’s embroiled in increasing power and prestige (14) - AGGRANDISEMENT*
DOWN
 1 - There have to be losers to make them what they are (7) – VICTORS [CD]
 2 - What the Choral Symphony is in the works of Beethoven in the numerical order (5) - NINTH [CD]
 3 - Capital kind of characters from a superior situation (5,4) - UPPER CASE [CD]
 4 - Tea user turns unrelenting (7) - AUSTERE*
 5 - Perfect concept followed by student (5) - IDEA{L}
 6 - Disturbance often resorted to in politics (9) - AGITATION [CD] Ask us Indians about agitations!!!
 7 - Somnolent old general gets caught by agent (6) - S{LEE}PY
10 - One of 40 in a nap (4) - WINK [CD]
14 - Recurrent melody that disturbs gent’s home (5,4) – THEME SONG*
16 - Make one into four (9) - QUADRUPLE [CD]
17 - With nothing on, pawnbroker drops the French boy (6) - UNC(-le)LAD
18 - Part of a class in school notices change (7) - SECTION*
19 - Swimming pool providing cover, love! (4) - LID{O}
20 - Socialist reportedly dispatched for something of little value (3,4) - RED CENT(~sent) See the origins and the meanings of the phrase at the link
22 - Trail followed by a hunter is small, insufficient (5) - S{POOR}
24 - Growth with a ‘peaceful branch’? (5) - OLIVE [CD]