Crossword for Sun, 25/Mar/2012

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Across
1: Varies order in command? That's debatable (13)

8: Tapping the rear of fashion model (7)

10: Outfit wins Tet Offensive (7)

11: Called oriental area (5)

13: A single AA battery produces no pain (9)

14: Painting a beard (7)

15: Half of them should have had an idea (7)

16: One who scans game piece (7)

18: Dead in place of rest, but not soon enough. (7)

20: Nunn completes more circuits than Gore coming around Canary Island seaport (3,6)

22: Very loud intrusion spoiled its cross words (5)

24: Blamed and nailed copper, scam's leader on the inside (7)

25: It involves, initially, my intention to fake right, perhaps? (7)

27: Something good made by dwarf barber, perhaps! (6,7)
Down
1: Seasoning for lark (5)

2: Louse can rise (3)

3: Overlook truck license expiration, at first (7)

4: The ex-President's back; time to withdraw? (7)

5: Fancy decoration thats cool on the surface? (5)

6: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

7: Renovated old statue endured longer (9)

9: Genteel Egyptian penning mournful poem (5)

12: Crazy to clean sons in awful mess (11)

14: Hesitate to leave when harboring evil (9)

17: Redesign it about Elle. (7)

18: B-back up string player (7)

19: Got excited by unusual tulip (3,2)

21: A small rig is something worth having (5)

23: Woodland deity posed six months (5)

26: Toothpaste brand at Target? (3)




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