No 2710, Sunday 28 Oct 12

ACROSS
1   - Song from doctor about a city, Latvia's capital (8)  - MADRIGAL {M{A}D}{RIGA}{L}
5   - Stabbed, king by fiend abroad (6)  - KNIFED {K}{FIEND*}
9   - Reasonable grounds, mostly (8)  - RATIONAL RATIONALe
10 - Figure outside broadcast's lengthy (6)  - OBLONG {O}{B}{LONG}
12 - One showing endurance during adversity, coming from Barbados to Iceland (5)  - STOIC [T]
13 - Old Hebrew king back in one place where something important happened (9)  - ISRAELITE {1}{S{RAEL<-}ITE}
14 - Fanatical propagandist, powerful energetic type possessing charm (3,9)  - HOT GOSPELLER {HOT} {GO{SPELL}ER}
18 - Rude lesbians in resort, they're not wanted (12)  - UNDESIRABLES*
21 - Collar man, criminal from Palma, perhaps (9)  - MALLORCAN*
23 - Cap removed from toy gun (5)  - RIFLE tRIFLE
24 - Cultivating endless fruit (6)  - RAISIN RAISINg
25 - Has treated unseasoned leather (8)  - SHAGREEN {HAS*}{GREEN}

26 - Want the Parisian to show pointer on dial (6)  - NEEDLE {NEED}{LE}
27 - Note making one irritable? Not quite (8)  - CROTCHET CROTCHETy
DOWN
1   - Gloomy, seaman on board again (6)  - MOROSE {MOR{OS}E}
2   - New red-top, unwelcome (2,4)  - DE TROP*
3   - Golf club's bridge award (4,5)  - IRON CROSS {IRON} {CROSS}

4   - Fantastic poise delivering song (7,5)  - AMAZING GRACE {AMAZING} {GRACE}

6   - Magnificent old British coin (5)  - NOBLE [DD]
7   - Following many in a bad way, a number of small ships (8)  - FLOTILLA {F}{LOT}{ILL}{A}
8   - Foolish constable found in dreadful bog in NI district (8)  - DOGBERRY {D{BOG*}ERRY}
11 - Independent MP may be more angry about judges (12)  - CROSSBENCHER {CROSS{BENCH}ER}
15 - Look at promising plant (9)  - EYEBRIGHT {EYE}{BRIGHT}

16 - Fool on ladder in rehearsal (5,3)  - DUMMY RUN {DUMMY}{RUN}
17 - Queen led over, following a deputy (8)  - ADELAIDE {A}{DEL<-}{AIDE}
19 - Far out, she floundered again (6)  - AFRESH {FAR*}{SHE*}
20 - Note about substance used for curdling (6)  - RENNET <-
22 - Rebuilt Loire college (5) - ORIEL*

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