Crossword for Thu, 10/Nov/2011

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2: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

4: Treat sick duck? Mothers after foreign tissue tumours (9)

9: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

10: Overcome by disappointment from the rare bonk going awry (11)

11: Mere chance of depression interrupting peace (11)

12: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

13: Mishaps or odd sayings (9)

16: A representative may be a scamp (3)

18: Child is to depart, finally (3)

19: Who applies pitch to a snake-rope? (9)

21: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

22: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

24: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

25: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

26: Relative takes funny pose on glass bridge? (9)

27: Sixpence for big cheese? (1.1.1.)

Down
1: Roll of coins Art's repackaged (9)

2: Coal remaining at the end of a month (5)

3: Long Rhine sequence in Wagner's work (9)

4: Pitching ideas to yes men (7)

5: Keeps turning nastier (7)

6: Putter smeared with dark, sticky goo (5)

7: Make the move its only temporary (9)

8: Norse gentleman? Not exactly. (5)

14: To get out three bunnies? (9)

15: Ballet producer - he'd a vigil choreographed (9)

17: Endless greeting after wine and cheese (4-5)

19: Shorten a spine with boron injection (7)

20: Introduction to knitted/purled English (7)

21: English philosopher cured pig (5)

22: Seize marijuana that's changing it's last stop (5)

23: Not blunt instrument - it has point on front (5)





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