Crossword for Fri, 15/May/2009

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Across
1: Completely drenched, laid umbrella tip gauge down (9)

5: Bit lots by half of tsetse flies (5)

8: Bobbed beneath in playful attempt to drown journalist. (6, 5)

9: Standard style of music rejected (3)

10: Greenspan hugs former wife and the German control freak Haig (9)

13: Names organisation of high-IQ folk (5)

14: Makes a killing in Massachusetts land holdings (9)

15: Identifies men as displaced - best not to be one at 34's (5)

16: Old-fashioned pastor has dined inside (5)

18: Is Asian holy man sinning in Asian capital? (9)

21: Demonstrated the way in which to keep poles apart (5)

22: Carry out country's acts of philanthropy (9)

23: Copy of top ten missing (3)

24: Exciting moment, actor as reviewer (11)

26: One who regrets following initial tendencies is increasingly sincere (5)

27: Having one's feet opposed, as in Australia. (9)
Down
1: Mobster at heart, presently I'll be carrying expensive pistol on hip (7)

2: People who put their kids to bed in fatigues? (7)

3: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

4: A favourite car of Seattle natives. (11)

5: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

6: Name of place where cat ate a little horse? (7)

7: Tar mess contaminated rivers (7)

11: Freedom of action in desert (7)

12: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

13: Set free from rising to study at night; Im unambitious! (7)

16: Far away Princess Street lay before the worker (7)

17: He wrote about life in the woods. You read mostly inside (7)

19: Distended, having bolted a stew (7)

20: Wants Lucy's husband to retire shortly (7)

24: See, you are a cad. (3)

25: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)




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