Crossword for Thu, 22/Nov/2012

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Across
1: Pointer is slender, lacking tip (5)

3: Dumb moans cracked up investigator of complaints (9)

8: Pathological bumbler holds a record (5)

10: A wind, and not a holiday period (36)

11: Clearly notes Earths at a particular compass point (4-5-4)

15: Lease bad tripod (5)

16: Snarling assistant to devil worshipers (9)

18: Golf club about to make undergarment (9)

19: Irene's new name (5)

20: Impatient dope confused designated hour (9,4)

21: Speaker with power (Irish), but no pith, develops a frog (9)

25: Computer celeb Michael flipped over (5)

26: Name assumed to be no dupe's my disguise (9)

27: Monsieur is immersed in unspecified French river (5)

Down
1: Ace practised a lot by female golfer in a state of decline (2,1,3,3)

2: Okay shot ripped tears in butt (6-5)

3: Have bananas now (3)

4: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

5: Novel deviance in the movie? (5,2,6)

6: Ran into a section of the time-table (3)

7: Neither partner finds way out of country (3)

9: Does not see the advertisement because it is in the wrong section. (13)

12: Trail after an uprising beginning to form (7)

13: Go over the same ground? (7)

14: Be prepared with amnesties for truancy (11)

17: Show singular glasses? (9)

21: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)

22: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)

23: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

24: Vet theatre opening 8-down (3)





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