Crossword for Wed, 22/Jul/2009

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Across
1: Making Athenian weaver drink an informal toast (7,2)

6: Examples of containers (5)

9: Big problem for police: one kitten's crying in hunger (5,4)

10: Smithys workplace agreement not originally despicable, not totally! (5)

11: Raises barnyard birds (around 8) (9)

12: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

13: Amazingly idle - why give up? (5)

15: Can eels freely bathe? (7)

17: Unaffected by a little liquor, he nursed the child. (4, 3)

18: Transgression if turning end in Marseille (5)

20: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

21: Wood shavings? A strange device for a banner! (9)

24: Rue loss of rare bird (5)

25: Country encircling one's country (9)

26: Was sick girl set up? (5)

27: Eddy's mother hugging Slater wildly (9)
Down
1: Yap about overdue wages (4,3)

2: Your leg? (5)

3: Ned Lunig, thrown inside, openly seen to be crapulous (13)

4: After a second, whip and rip (5)

5: Creep lets another choose the candidate (9)

7: Number observed with contest entry (9)

8: Chopped dill into a kind of bean? Hardly (7)

10: Drink to them, not with them. (6,7)

14: Fifty are returning after the last hemp mixture has a short life cycle (9)

15: Cal Tech is center of Roman Catholic dogma (9)

16: Foolish fancy makes him race around (7)

19: Mobster at heart, presently I'll be carrying expensive pistol on hip (7)

22: Two articles in French about Diamonds and Big Dipper (5)

23: One who gets up part of stairway (5)




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