Crossword for Wed, 10/Aug/2011

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Across
1: Please start to sing at one San Francisco club (7)

4: Where Handel wrote short measure on organ (7)

7: Actress Tori, lacking direction, is getting the characters out of order(11)

10: Sort of uninitiated cheat (3)

11: Almost useless nags (7)

12: Wounded bats put back to bed (7)

13: New York decries eccentric period of medical training (9)

14: Check about a form of power (5)

15: The short one may be drawn (5)

17: A woman loved what a Roman is content about (9)

21: Lady hugging extremely old lumberjack (7)

23: Fine log doesnt begin garden art (7)

24: I am reported to leer (3)

25: 27-across about starting off 1-down world unconditionally (2,3,2,4)

26: Saves and secures stranger (7)

27: Many ethers (7)
Down
1: Meeting to deploy the marines (7)

2: They try canopies (7)

3: Russian leader unorthodox in style (7)

4: Great stories about spice (5)

5: Do I have the capacity to be good-natured? (7)

6: Head of Daimler (U.K.) brought back style to noble estate (7)

8: Boob implant cups: sad hoax in line with 15-down (8,3)

9: Mary-Jane crochets her Pop a jumper (11)

15: Rose was refined, but would never make a silk purse (4,3)

16: 'Old car stalls,' discloses again? (7)

18: A strain crippled master craftsman (7)

19: Usually regret about loss follows start of stint in AA (2,1,4)

20: Fools around near hellholes (7)

22: Transfixes the finger-tips (5)




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