Crossword for Tue, 23/Oct/2007

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Across
1: Considers taxes. (5)

4: Ran into a section of the time-table (3)

6: Notes spent in Germany (5)

8: Conversation to completely stop about scrubs (9)

9: Bolt I have inserted in right frame (5)

11: By no means the cleverest, anyway (9)

12: Lifeblood of dope (3)

13: On your feet! (8,5)

15: Ratty cavalier redressed in proper horseman's uniform. (7, 6)

20: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

22: Keep an eye on a new teak floor (4,5)

23: Made clear how in directions (5)

24: Game lord holds Nabokov novel with no leading character (9)

25: Something useful - like a matching collection? (5)

26: Unappealing environment for a snooze (3)

27: Values of 100 missing from boxes (5)
Down
1: To initiate into communist units, they carry the vital gas. (3, 5, 5)

2: Tutus can serve to conceal Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, say (7)

3: Something lacking in brief season (9)

4: I got spoilt when wed (7)

5: The control is over that way (7)

6: Its strange to go back to a novice for a wall decoration (5)

7: With diverse amendments? (7)

10: Gradually reduce European Community requisitions for playback devices (4,9)

14: Central Slovak airport damaged 16-down (9)

16: Our visa, perhaps for divers (7)

17: Moscow politician revolting in style (7)

18: Ace swallows pastry tart (7)

19: Enjoy a mud pie and trade it freely (3,4)

21: Principle unaffected by revolution (5)




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