Crossword for Mon, 10/May/2010

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Across
1: Tie torn coats (7)

4: Clumsy fools head toward prevarication (9)

9: Odysseus' first requirement - to catch you like Polyphemus? (3-4)

10: The very young at times dash around seniors with energy (7)

11: City train bears the woman's name (5)

12: Watch Othello, for one, receiving minor criticism (7)

13: Popular pickpocket is returning, tasteless (7)

16: Moulding material to be included in upcoming miniseries (5)

17: Assistants' crackpot ideas (5)

19: Clip of Southern Conservative is very revealing at first (7)

21: When you work it out, Alfie, we fish (7)

22: Film relay got mixed up (5)

24: Fires possibly singe it (7)

25: Windbag has nothing on after dance? (7)

26: Of course, Alan truly is weird (9)

27: Inspects quantities of beer (5)

Down
2: The percolator, repulsively, contains a pancake (5)

3: Tinkers jump in children's world (3,4)

4: Some people differ about Castro (5)

5: Bring ashore German notes with famous features (9)

6: Fumbles about and trips (7)

7: Open singles with additional meaning (9)

8: Vicious return to professional serve reveals the inequality. (13)

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

14: Come to terms with instant operating computers (5,2,2)

15: Spread Dianne's pearls around (9)

18: A vagrant fishing-boat (7)

20: I hear idle, I see peaceful and happy (7)

22: Entrance activists en masse (5)

23: Sculpted torso brings cheers (5)





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