Crossword for Mon, 28/Nov/2011

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Across
1: Bank's even keeping a bribe that's put up (7)

4: Six lions play fiddles (7)

8: Center of ado: anger about second-rate British slaver (7)

10: Small bed put out by the front of every house (7)

11: Short policeman consumes nothing but seafood (7)

12: Wanderer features in ones best adage (7)

14: Highly decorated nobleman has favourite spot for body-piercing. (7)

15: Cook, sorta! (5)

17: Father Brown's latest femme fatale (5)

19: I'm great novel detective (7)

21: Late Greek god betraying no emotion (7)

23: Sums are written up for scholar (7)

24: Bad blood from taking head off to slay William (3,4)

25: Pair are only a short distance from the dance (3-4)

26: Non-professional laggard goes underground (4,3)

27: Get sun darkened between California, Iowa, and city in Italy (7)
Down
2: Marauder contaminating a pet river (9)

3: More delicate - cast off bluster (7)

4: National official is here, carrying identification, after challenge overwhelms local center (4-9)

5: Al Fresco is to do our cooking (7)

6: Envision dazed magi on the brink of enlightenment (5)

7: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

8: End is close, doctor surreptitiously revealed (9)

9: Plowmen let Amy spread job statute (10,3)

13: Call to drink like feeding ducks? (7,2)

16: An unthinking person for the most part, relative eats red fruit (9)

18: Alien put in L.A. marriage (7)

20: Freshly pick up select book on top (7)

22: A friend comes round to appease (5)

24: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)




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