Crossword for Mon, 23/Sep/2013

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Across
1: Falstaff's first clever lie (5)

3: Last music playing on both TV and radio (9)

8: Evil son in awful group of fiddlers. (4,5)

10: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

11: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)

12: See, you are a cad. (3)

13: Salt sees entrance taking in everyone (7)

14: Call on stranger, then elope (9)

17: Bit lots by half of tsetse flies (5)

18: Fiber extracted from thistles (5)

19: Family member suppresses a temptation to go head-to-foot naked (2,7)

20: Whirling eel in enclosure (7)

21: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

22: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

23: Later round without an opponent (3)

24: Alto I somehow kept in the dark, back during interactive broadcasting (4,5)

26: Took a load off awfully thin ledge (9)

27: Short time for the Irish (5)
Down
1: What this puzzle is (3)

2: Rings for the groups (5)

3: $100 accepted by tart in buff (5)

4: Arranger of mere songs put in the shade (4,5)

5: Something good made by mini drink packer! (6,7)

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

7: Mixed greens and teals, so dad's remodeled (6,5)

9: National official is here, carrying identification, after challenge overwhelms local center (4-9)

11: Bend in Pennsylvania court case related to revered founder (11)

15: One making a mess is resentful oaf, per Rev. Spooner (9)

16: Love sounded wrong for aunt and primate (5-4)

21: I had been at the front, and retired (5)

22: Drain off lowest part (5)

25: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)




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