The Preston Pages
August 2011 Crossword by Budtangerina

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Across

7Violent upheaval routs royal with no virtue (13)
8Doled out bits of information, club notes revealed (8)
9Two dead ducks or an extinct bird (4)
10Knock heard could be Jack with a design needing to be returned (3-1-3)
12Bud nipped off untidy shrubbed plants (5)
14The lowest degree obtainable from Montreal East (5)
16Misguidedly incite Zambian leader to become a resident (7)
19Audio equipment supplied by a giant (after a fee, it's said)? ... (2-2)
20... it's available on tape (dreadful evil-shaped LP was dropped) (8)
22Treasurer even manipulated stock security holding (6,7)

Down

1Recording finished once you'd begun to cry (4)
2This cigar could almost give you a heart attack (6)
3Conflict arising after Furtwängler's reviewed rent dropped (4,3)
4Señorita's curve that's OTT? (5)
5Cushioned gerbil's hiding, being somewhat nervous (2,4)
6Transformed local derbies' also-ran is worthy of one's belief (8)
11Bit removed when processing basmati rice for these destinations (8)
13Glimpsed saw (7)
15Huskies in the middle go fast down a slope (3,3)
17A large number missing from user IDs upset publisher (6)
18Formerly unknown ingredient of rubber products (5)
21Old Vauxhall follower cheers at the start (4)