Crossword for Mon, 18/Jun/2012

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Across
2: Like a high ranking diplomat's awful ambrosia salad (13)

8: Music drama can go endlessly on (9)

9: Understood I engaged in diplomacy (5)

11: Enough messing with me, pal (5)

13: Ban professional writer (9)

14: Gained a hearing (3)

15: Shower time, Bonzo? Spring, I hear (5)

16: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

17: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)

18: Lodge heard discharge (5)

20: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

21: In love with copper? Gone to give the needle? (9)

23: Melodious vocal rendition of musical composition (5)

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

25: Strange set-back overwhelms blundering bravado (7-2)

27: Shredded chad, he decrees, is one ingredient (7,6)
Down
1: A grim ball gown, uncomfortable in increasing temperature (6,7)

2: Requires five kills, or a single accurate shot. (3)

3: Courage demonstrated by constraining one who is uninhibited (7)

4: Cut corners and omit taking minutes (5)

5: A bleater going kooky within ticker test (9)

6: Iridescent stone contains quirk having to do with vision (7)

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

10: Valuable discovery certain in luxury travel (8,5)

12: 28 Invitation for man to get a cent on November 5? (5,3,3,3)

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

18: With reference to above -- Phys. Ed. Department has renewed contract (7)

19: Penalty for holy person in the grip of drink? (7)

22: Ear to (almost all) the ground (5)

26: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)




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