Crossword for Sun, 1/Sep/2013

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Across
1: Ten Canoes galled Chinese (9)

6: Almost all choose fresh salmon (5)

9: Piece of pottery containing drink to make beast tender (9)

10: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

12: Pervert stripped in mineral water (5)

13: Prepares this way, dearies (7)

14: Author of Breathe Out, Lay Out, Going Out? (4,5)

16: Idea I'm followed for days (5)

17: One hundred-odd bits of bombs in some projectiles initially (5)

18: Strait men may be strict disciplinarians (9)

20: Salt sees entrance taking in everyone (7)

21: Mineral springs start to moderate involuntary muscular contraction (5)

23: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

24: Revealing depravity, Dick the highwayman does not finish playing duet (9)

26: Body English for a billiards shot (5)

27: Shrubs dot the French mountain range, providing a tinge of russet (9)
Down
1: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)

2: The sound of a piano is excruciating (5)

3: Designed dashing ten-ton pick-up (3-5,5)

4: Bundy under English seabird thats forever! (7)

5: Old communist uprising described in distorted yell (7)

7: One of museums awash with cultural treasures (9)

8: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

10: End of Oslo peace process making things less clear (13)

11: Seduce husband-to-be in parlor (7, 4)

15: Strangely, some limbs suffer from blood clots. (9)

18: Eminent performer in some art form (7)

19: Set aside a conservation area (7)

22: Miss West soaks up ultraviolet for that striking shade of purple (5)

25: Aliens set off (3)




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