Crossword for Tue, 12/Dec/2006

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Across
2: Piece of wisdom from a quiet aristocrat (5)

4: Sounds like a wolf on the coast (3)

8: Rise as in throw, perhaps, showing fitness to fly (13)

10: Scale Ten after taxes (3)

11: Throw mud at information (5)

12: So disgusting no-one takes part? (7)

14: One who does not believe in Castro (7)

17: Sarah has friends from France on a Greek island (7)

18: Examiner for each drug addict (7)

20: Sort of plain fur! (5)

24: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

25: Swings needing repair by unknown stock gauge (4,4,5)

26: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

27: Allow meathead into mine opening (5)

Down
1: Betraying no emotion when Greek god has first expired (7)

2: Everlasting ringing of changes, outside inside, upside down (9)

3: Capone frequently gets high (5)

4: Succinct commission document (5)

5: Amazingly idle - why give up? (5)

6: A small rig is something worth having (5)

7: Unfathomable letters from Lamb, say (7)

9: Argument in the meeting (5)

13: Rohmer hiding unit of Resistance (3)

15: In favor of echoing game call (3)

16: Smear record colour - that one (9)

17: An Italian port - New Orleans (7)

18: Note found in prison is swell (5)

19: Surrounded by grass, loose and laid-back (7)

21: Listening to playwright's baloney (5)

22: Some feudal assassin in Japan (5)

23: Something useful - like a matching collection? (5)

24: Taxi omitted going around gnome (5)





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