No 2633, Sunday 08 May 11

My kind of CW with no CD's etc.
ACROSS
1   - I'm so sexy in new lace undergarment (8) - CAMISOLE* (Correction - {CA{MISO*}LE*} - See comments)

5   - A couple of lines in poor song (6) - {B{A}{LL}AD}
9   - Beginning to laugh, interrupting funny gag (8) - {STRANG{L}E}
10 - Article by good man on church's position (6) - {ST}{AN}{CE}
12 - Buddhist monk holding head of lowing animal (5) - {L{L}AMA}
13 - Popular French novelist's crossing small British city (9) - {IN}{VERNE{S}S}
14 - Checking text from academic going round old English university (12) - {PR{O}OF}{READING}
18 - Speculation after son's dismissed? His crime? (12) - EMBEZZLEMENT Anno pending See comments
21 - Typeface used by Cambridge college lecturer penning first of novels (9) - {CLARE}{N}{DON}
23 - Ring about daughter's cycle (5) - {PE{D}AL}
24 - Beast kept by Pakistani male (6) - ANIMAL [T]
25 - A name in staircase window (8) - {F{A}{N}LIGHT}

26 - Hear about object, all the rage (6) - {TR{END}Y}
27 - On which runners make tracks? (3,5) - {SKI S}{LOPE} &lit

DOWN
1   - Keep left in station (6) - {CAST{L}E} Couldn't get the connection between 'Station' and 'Caste'.
2   - New, in fish sauce (6) - {MOR{N}AY}
3   - Czar's aunt, originally from a Bolivian city (5,4) - SANTA CRUZ*
4   - Sweet woman, crossing warden (8,4) - {LOLLIPOP} {LADY}

6   - Change flag when heading off (5) - fALTER
7   - Cause of one leering lasciviously? (8) - L(I)NGERIE* &lit
8   - Put on, before season, an equestrian event (8) - {DRESS}{AGE}
11 - All given lift after morality play (5,3,4) - {EVERY MAN} {JACK}
15 - An Italian city, southern state capital (9) - {AN}{NAPOLI}{S}
16 - Liking page's charm (8) - {P}{ENCHANT}
17 - Rough sailor varies manoeuvres (8) - {AB}{RASIVE*}
19 - A soldier entering a function slowly (6) - {A}{D{A}{GI}O}
20 - Gay bishop set on fire by male (6) - {B}{LIT}{HE}
22 - Close to campsite, put down an antelope (5) - {E}{LAND}

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