Crossword for Wed, 10/Sep/2008

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Across
1: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

3: Bar mail of unadorned capital (5,6)

8: Pen opening regularly, bearing volatile, flammable liquid (7)

9: Bottomless sea, stormy sea - waters' surface rises and falls (7)

10: Six points making a case for one in good shape (5)

12: Dotty rides around corrals with someone who passes out (9)

13: Feeling distressed? Tea's no sin (9)

16: Healthy, but lacking first beer (3)

17: The time before the first woman (3)

18: Lankiest teen group lean with little energy (9)

19: Spasm set in after mothers had a little something to chew (9)

21: All the performers express disapproval about it (5)

23: Attribute for a document copier (7)

24: Between two girls, left in a quandary (7)

26: No hefty role at sea for ship-launcher (5,2,4)

27: Copy of top ten missing (3)
Down
1: I sent out a little map (5)

2: Anyway - no! (3)

3: Born and raised, it is whispered, to make money (5)

4: Stretching to far, covering(missing the front)holds down nothing 9)

5: Ultimately, dconstruire, to the French intellectual, is simple (9)

6: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

7: User brought back radio part (wrecked sound) to return to use (9)

9: Call for help oddly stops (3)

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

13: Group of athletes with club entering quiet sauna (5,4)

14: Speaker with power (Irish), but no pith, develops a frog (9)

15: Rev. Spooner says 'The person massaging Reagan is illiterate' (3-6)

20: Number One in facetiousness (3)

21: Count Tadeusz's first friend (5)

22: Denim -- a genuine clothing icon (5)

25: Bam! Rotated a degree (3)




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