Crossword for Thu, 20/Mar/2008

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Across
2: Cant this band collect any moss? (7,6)

8: Swamp creature resting tail on a rocky outcrop (5)

10: Plant-based compound sprinkled on cigar (7)

11: Diamonds for newlywed, coating grand frail spanner (3-6)

12: Lists scoundrels (5)

13: Leave sorcerer to bible-basher (9)

15: Polish hollow late Russian coin (5)

18: Sing gist of laudatory ode loudly (5)

19: Choose me! Tory ordered profession (9)

20: Archipelagos concluded thus in Nigeria (5)

22: Increase in force may finish in soccer riot (9)

24: A drop of the hard stuff? (7)

26: Fancy brush? (5)

27: I'll go geld guys - suprisingly he laughs raucously. (7, 6)

Down
1: Drink one after another in a tantalizing way (9)

2: Returned, blushing about departure (9)

3: Measure of beverage with even fewer calories? (5)

4: Ball-horses are travellers! (5-8)

5: Draw a stomach uprising (3)

6: Starts to name Olivia Newton-John 'Country Entertainer' for the time being (5)

7: Fires partner in investment firm, we hear (5)

9: To initiate into communist units, they carry the vital gas. (3, 5, 5)

12: Rabbit (male) with nest of bunnies? (5)

14: Hellish center for immigration? (5)

16: It's on the coast of Australia - a tree discovered by science (6,3)

17: Gloomy yet distorted derivation (9)

20: Racing off without first resting (5)

21: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

23: The Commander went to the communist and ripped his heart out. (5)

25: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)





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