Crossword for Sun, 20/Jan/2008

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Across
1: It may be used in candy or brought back in taxi (5)

4: Drunk stops to heave (7)

8: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

9: Live with stewed spinach ingredients (4,5)

11: Language making a comeback in modern Italy (5)

12: Model unpredictable dial to shake in natural disaster (5,4)

13: Small piece of fish (3)

15: Bright-sounding agenda touches on heavyweight legend (5,6)

16: Girl hatches subterfuge in prison tower (11)

19: Fiction position (3)

21: Goner osculates wildly (4,5)

22: Out of context rather more than is necessary (5)

24: Foretold that the wine would be finished (9)

25: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

26: Hold spellbound in the tenth rally (7)

27: Quiet floor decoration is a sign of indifference (5)

Down
1: Actors were first to have moved on board (7)

2: Mechanical worker pushing start button in the depths of the plant (5)

3: Shifting financial fortunes cause industry revolution (8,5)

4: Be embraced by a giant like the Dalai Lama (7)

5: How to support a ready reservist (5-2)

6: Roll dirt and clay round tip of thumb with three fingers (9)

7: Oriental festival on the first of November (7)

10: Illness I catch performing exercises? (13)

14: Eighteen rounds initially served in golf-club bar (9)

16: Sailor to criticise abundant 19-across source (7)

17: Cosmetics queen holds kickoff for 'Nasturtium Wash' (7)

18: Warrior and Republican in fantastic legend (7)

20: It's exciting, for example, holding a tongue (7)

23: Counter of delay! (5)





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