Crossword for Thu, 13/Sep/2012

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Across
1: Have sheriff's helpers joined Nazi police (7)

5: Speculated that it was a talkative visitor (7)

8: Outrageous trio of Italians bursting in on divorcee and me (7)

9: Worried about being ribbed. (7)

11: NBC drama becomes art in imperial fair (9)

13: I am reported to leer (3)

14: The star of 'Ellen' has at folks with substandard morals (11)

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

17: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

18: Stimulant produced as choir paid off (11)

21: Send back gangster's gun to get ID (3)

22: Assault on SandL comes to nothing (9)

23: Settler rearranged alphabet components (7)

24: Star's drug causes a dark patch (7)

26: Wanderer features in ones best adage (7)

27: Mad? O, yes! Mad dog! (7)
Down
1: Went ahead and used the power button (7,2)

2: Scenery has to get down by starting 12-across (7,6)

3: You audibly ram partner (3)

4: Shepherd, at times, is more abrupt in tone (7)

6: Girl mostly into turning inside out - it's never ending! (11)

7: City that cowboys used to avoid (5)

9: Feeble deception overheard (5)

10: Nick shouts - and theres trouble brewing! (3,5,2,3)

12: Sent one page rewritten in military lingo (11)

16: Cut material had value (9)

19: Entertains crowds (5)

20: Aboard a ship is shipping magnate (7)

21: Flower, large one, set up outside (5)

25: Vet theatre opening 8-down (3)




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