No 10171, Friday 03 Jun 11, Sankalak

ACROSS
1   - Me, a quiet deacon, troubled about earning enough? (8,6) - ADEQUATE INCOME*
8   - What a doctor perhaps does when a girl poses (6) - {VI}{SITS}
9   - Like soda, not like citrus juice (8) - ALKALINE [CD]
11 - Perform a marriage maybe, that is said to be dignified, pleasant (9) - (~solemn){SOLEM}{NISE}(~nice)
12 - Gossip about university in an administrative division (5) - {TAL{U}K}
13 - Note by player in nuclear plant (7) - {RE}{ACTOR}
15 - Medical tool in Southern French resort changed at last (7) - {S}{CANNE(-s+r)R}
17 - Effort by an abstainer to accommodate casual worker (7) - {A}{T{TEMP}T}
19 - Could be a race for great literary work (7) - CLASSIC [DD]
21 - They show how things work when a few people go back after daughter (5) - {D}{EMOS<-}
23 - Teacher, aged, with ego up for a trip (9) - PEDAGOGUE*
25 - Kind of hidden motive that a trio rule out (8) - ULTERIOR*
26 - A singular portent for one for whom property may be made over? (6) - {A}{S}{SIGN} Cluewise this becomes 'Assignee'
27 - How may one work a la Newton? (14) - SCIENTIFICALLY [CD]
DOWN
1   - A medico holds gripping tool for one who gives counsel (7) - {A}{D{VISE}R}
2   - Supporter of painting has no difficulty beginning to learn (5) - {EASE}{L}
3   - The last word? (9) - ULTIMATUM [CD]
4   - Lines, large and small, violated in disease (7) - ILLNESS*
5   - Song of the trader leaving the sea in France (5) - merCHANT
6   - What a serious drug user does for a quick fix on highways (4,5) - {MAIN} {LINES}
7   - One searching for old English king taken in by fortune teller (6) - {SE{E}{K}ER}
10 - Fibber who is unusual? Not half! (4) - pecuLIAR
14 - Mica that's crumbling makes one a wheezer (9) - ASTHMATIC*
16 - CIA's angle exposed — that relieves pain (9) - ANALGESIC*
17 - Artist upset over gloomy but intense love (6) - {AR<-}{DOUR}
18 - Chief support underground for growth above (7) - TAPROOT [CD]
19 - Fish, English, in cryptic language (4) - {COD}{E}
20 - Is that how a good catch may be taken? (7) - CLEANLY [CD]
22 - A small desire leading to a big rise (5) - {S}{URGE}
24 - Way to cook a piece of goose over a small channel (5) - {G}{RILL}

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