Crossword for Sun, 17/Jul/2011

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Across
1: Wildcats left out in capital (7)

5: Dogs running around streets (7)

8: Powers-that-be cure West End of troubles fast (7)

9: I'm great, composing music (7)

11: Feed all but the first stranger (5)

12: Tiresome platitude from dim bore (7)

13: Wants - in fact, just has to have (5)

14: San Francisco athlete captures wild boar, an obvious choice (2-7)

16: Green coat for Italian composer and Spanish painter (9)

18: Youngster giving wounded first aid (5)

21: Southeastern Greek Island harbor (7)

23: Light touch of resplendence covers humble beginnings (5)

24: Before much time has elapsed a nobleman takes that over there (5,2)

25: A letter from Greece - about a sort of April flower (7)

26: and 19 A Michelangelo masterpiece right over people's heads here? (7,6)

27: Appreciate it: a large data format (7)
Down
1: Yellow fowl (7)

2: Give back wares to retailer's layaway? (7)

3: Secretly include railroad in family future (13)

4: Woodland deity posed six months (5)

5: Get rid of Bush (5)

6: Tide recedes in love, in this version. (7)

7: The old Queen was said to be a grizzly mother.(3-4)

10: A grim ball gown, uncomfortable in increasing temperature (6,7)

14: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

15: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

16: Religious observance improves personality a little (7)

17: Cuts cables again? (7)

19: United States taken in by tax he prepared to squander (7)

20: A game stuffing ketchup in balloons (7)

22: Irene's new name (5)

23: Beat writer's collaborator briefly drank (5)




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