The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 25,860 - Feb 1 2013

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Clues Answers
5 down initially seen in connexion with American fraud SHAM
Asia trip arranged for 5 down in retirement APIARIST
Boxer, possibly, was this dog PEKINESE
Consultant whose medical assistant chronicled his cases HOLMES
Doing crosswords and so on? Not I — I'm a philosopher HOBBES
Hesitation among group of constables, mostly — three-pipe problems? POSERS
Information's provided about four — from which certain conclusions may be deduced GIVENS
Inspector quickly moves back inside sheltered position LESTRADE
Journey north twice broken by old private eye POIROT
Kind of criminal, awfully bad, disrupted court ABDUCTOR
Landlady with a bank near Wall Street HUDSON
Notorious professor misrepresented Tory aim about part of basic education MORIARTY
Oddly deficient clue thus confused investigator SLEUTH
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Old character in fictional case I caught on river with fish eggs RICHARDROE
Part of legislature's act setting up exemplary legal process TESTCASE
Part of sentence, as separately entered in this, for example CLAUSE
Piece of clothing repeatedly featuring in detective's travestied investigation VEST
Prejudice wrongly treated as crime, mostly RACISM
Simple — like copper, say ELEMENTARY
Take back ringleader, you heard, caught by English policeman RECOUP
Things scheduled, apart from hospital, for famous doctor WATSON
Tries scheme that goes awry, resulting in lists of offences CRIMESHEETS
Visibly unhappy after rejecting first reprimand EARFUL
Where, in London, dozens of tradesmen are generous? BAKERSTREET
Withdraw from some case, detective being extremely selective SECEDE
Wrongfully take them in as killers HITMEN