Crossword for Sun, 15/Mar/2009

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Across
2: Menzies-Carr alliance keeps eye on silly timers (3-3,7)

8: Later round without an opponent (3)

9: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)

11: Wizards covered in liquor and beer...it might be for charity (7, 4)

12: Half disapprove of old king (3)

13: Rascal and wuss taking week off (3)

14: Simplest to find English in kinky siesta (7)

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

17: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

18: Mount seen the day before the others (7)

22: One may be a very long time (3)

23: Gorilla taking head off at it's base! (3)

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

25: Support a deranged original (11)

27: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

28: Teen unclothes poorly dressed diners (13)
Down
1: Fruit taken in in inn (9)

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

3: Weird corrals; Silver upset (7)

4: Releases transposed shops (7)

5: Singer Mel, not heartless, is suffering (7)

6: Pate topping primarily honey and tamari? (3)

7: Dress up fakes without a shred of compunction (5)

10: Claim agent has vision (5)

12: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

16: Unspoken corruption - born venal! (3-6)

18: With Pat, I persevere, biting back final words? (7)

19: Michael Caine, first outspoken host (5)

20: Pets lie about the letter. (7)

21: Journey permitted for one of three babies (7)

23: Deplorable! Sad wife ugly every second (5)

26: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)




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