Chambers Feb '10
by Peebles

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Across

7Western was sick and desolate (8)
9Escaped from duel, injured – foe finally died (6)
10Ravel's "Short-billed Bird" (4)
11With which to survey the tops of ocean drifts and to lie at sea (10)
12Oyster-bed flooring from copper left by church (5)
14Investment of minor significance became 007? (4,4)
16Controlling a type of 10 (7)
18Time wife left awful husband initially for a casual date? (7)
21Poor idea, roping in animals as a Christian emblem (5,3)
23See inside casual person's type of 10 (5)
24Child's game: "Musical Crib"? (4-6)
26Type of 10 overturned baths (4)
27Position a striker may take legally (6)
28Tailor of tuxedo defeated by craft (8)

Down

1A lot of cash on credit at first usually makes superior drink (5,3)
2Half of chamber music groups going north ignore revision (4)
3They could be additionally, modifyingly, features of a sentence (7)
4Black object, a type of 10 (4)
5Crushed by greeting, one party returning ring causes a fuss (10)
6Hit recording live before a smallish number (6)
8In which it champions a type of 10 (5)
13Related to human communication requiring fish (Scottish island in charge) (10)
15Crafty front type of 10 (3)
17Rising academic gets head's agreement (3)
19Help someone through a period when the sea has receded again? (4,4)
20Type of 10 involved in sword (7)
22Two names in US nondescript type of 10 (6)
23Fermented table whine! (5)
25Type of 10's reverse in car price rises? (4)
26Lake duck all right for air (4)


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