Crossword for Thu, 1/Mar/2012

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Across
1: Mary-Jane crochets her Pop a jumper (11)

7: Choose to take the top off (3)

9: Trail after an uprising beginning to form (7)

10: Dark mysterious thing (5)

11: Senseless and sick to pass up one calorie (9)

12: This identifies the literary epic at the outset! (5)

14: Initially tied with us, downhill racer was in contention? (7)

15: Accidentally unsex group with ties (5)

16: Statues which aren't solid? (5)

18: Counted time on one's side (7)

21: Publication for children (5)

22: Urgently compelled president? Sure - with democratic leader (9)

23: Small town, oddly, has room (5)

24: I misread _Times_ article's final detail (7)

26: Sound of river crossing (3)

27: Exciting moment, actor as reviewer (11)

Down
1: First get a French weapon. (3)

2: Clearances for the first couple of characters to find answers. (11)

3: Hammers small rock outcroppings (7)

4: Iridescent stone contains quirk having to do with vision (7)

5: Wooden seemed ordinary around Nebraska (7)

6: To be groovy, must not be left off. (5, 2)

7: Cull out from top ten (3)

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

11: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

13: I'll be stuffed if I'll deal with him!. (11)

17: She'll get appliance that's tan (7)

18: Name of place where cat ate a little horse? (7)

19: Wild geese, disoriented without leaders, find shelter (3,4)

20: First punch in the middle of the little beast, then take a look at it. (7)

23: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

25: Terrier shows how to stray (3)





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