No 2527, Sunday, 05 Apr 09

Hit Jackpot today, as normally I am left with one or two unsolved in the Sunday CWs. What refreshing clues after the long-long ones dished out during the past week. Addendums with help from the Orkut community

ACROSS
1 - Thinly sliced beef over butter on one (8) – {PAST}{RAM}{I}
5 - Duck emerging from bird shelter in outskirts of Stranraer (6) – S{COTE}R
10 - He abducted Helen in capital (5) – PARIS [2]
11 - Means of deciding winners from couples describing holiday (9) – {TIE}{BREAKS}
12 - Body of water comprised of three colours (11,4) – {YELLOW}{STONE} LAKE
13 - Copyright infringer could make head of paper extremely angry (6) – {P}{IRATE}
14 - Uncomplaining convalescent (7) – PATIENT [2]
17 - Anger shown about boy’s Scott Joplin music (7) – RAG{TIM}E
19 - Fielding heroine, one trapped by a sly male (6) – {A}{MEL{I}A*}
21 - Dog in well? Boy put in well, then left (8,7) – SPRINGER SPANIE{L} Guessed this from the crossings, Annotation eludes me (Addendum SPRING{ER {SPA}NIE}{L})
23 - Form quite unpredictable – better discounting both sides (9) – ET{IQUET*}TE (better - br)
24 - Card (king) Welshman put back (5) – {K}{NAVE<-} 25 - Exaggerate concerning reception (6) – {OVER}{DO}
26 - Robe with slit worn by saint – me? (8) – VE{ST}{ME}NT

DOWN
1 - Cartoon character’s father on organ (6) – {POP}{EYE}
2 - Walking in street, waving (9) – {ST}{ROLLING}
3 - What a church may have organised //for trade unions// holding ballot at last (11,4) – RESTORA{T}ION FUND* (for trade unions* + t(ballot last) Took me a while to unravel this one
4 - Painter, male, in dispute (not with university) (7) – {MAT}{ISS(-u)E}
6 - Take mercer north, possibly to create a monopoly (6,3,6) – CORNER THE MARKET*
7 - Coronet found in Tahiti, a rarity (5) – TIARA [T]
8 - Poet is, to sister, remarkable (8) – RISSETTO*(Addendum - ROSSETTI*)
9 - Get back about company in the capital (6) – {RE}{CO}{UP}
15 - Spain lost, meeting Italy at home in match, so put out (9) – {E(-spano)L}{I}{M{IN}ATE}
16 - Get on with Oscar, Miranda’s father (8) – {PROSPER}{O} Remember reading the Tempest in school, I think it was one of the prescribed books
18 - Social occasions, still extremely tedious (6) – {EVEN}{T(-ediou)S}
19 - Serious opera lacking capital before (7) – {(-f)AUST}{ERE}
20 - Customer in court defending right (6) – C{LIEN}T
22 - Breed fish, reportedly (5) – RAISE (~rays)