Crossword for Thu, 12/Oct/2006

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Across
3: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

6: Patches bones (5)

8: The near-breaking of ground (7)

9: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

11: I shall be sick! (3)

12: No question of misbehaviour. (7)

13: Homer's travail: 'I don't finish daily retreat.' (5)

16: Movie rating implicit in Baghdad ultimatum (5)

18: On return, for example, put back costume (3-2)

19: Result of incident (5)

20: More candid and duller (7)

23: Top card? Excellent! (3)

24: Ripen mangoes evenly (3)

25: Foolish fancy makes him race around (7)

26: Siphon windy painter? (5)

27: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

Down
1: Designed dashing ten-ton pick-up (3-5,5)

2: Exciting object getting rent by stream (9)

3: Britannia - she never has blanched (5)

4: Seen in elegant wraps from the East, former redhead? (5)

5: In love with copper? Gone to give a needle? (9)

6: Wake up Hoad, beaten in motorists facility (9)

7: Hold up congressman ... (5)

10: 'Ransom'? Lame. Run 'Rocky I', 'II', 'III', etc. (5,8)

14: Unwelcome visitors oddly unstirred (9)

15: Two characters together, drunk, hit PhD on the third of August (9)

17: Extremely tense many times about a private conversation (4-1-4)

20: Crow circles front of gate in Eastern fort (5)

21: One side of the page a clergyman does not finish (5)

22: Shinny up and start to cut branch (5)





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