Crossword for Wed, 12/Nov/2008

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Across
1: Provisions made by the artist to get into shape for the course (7)

4: Usher again in the audience for evidence of payment (7)

8: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

9: Cher holds arm of flirt (7)

10: Frost to cover the cake (3)

11: In favour of change reduce mode of action (9)

12: Faith in Osiris, lamentably (5)

13: Those who study bugs' motion got less confused (13)

14: Logical oil Polish chap applied (13)

20: African leader reversed stance on fabled writer (5)

21: Persistently ask for one silly prom song (9)

22: Draw the knot (3)

23: Small item showing what poodle parlor may do (7)

24: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

26: Flashlight lent, ran sporadically (7)

27: Celebrations to the light, right, every which way (7)
Down
1: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

2: Expel the ones who show up (7)

3: Sounds like actor Stephen's a scavenger (7)

4: Hungarian composer on CD extra, perhaps, with Norwegian composer (7)

5: Stocks for bears (7)

6: A sign of winter here in Paris -- clashes when ash is dumped (7)

7: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

9: Whip stuff with energy (5)

11: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

14: Private entrance in back behind Post Office (7)

15: Col in unopened 10-across tie (7)

16: Personal belief: IPO in no trouble (7)

17: Propane explodes, theoretically (2,5)

18: Wooded hillock forming part of Arthur's territory (5)

19: Decisive curl twisting around spy body (7)

25: Looks like an eyesore, sounds like an eyesore (3)




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