Crossword for Tue, 23/Nov/2010

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Across
1: Fancy brush? (5)

4: Bone-picker starts scouring chronicles for one bent on retribution (9)

8: Injured after face off and ready to shoot (5)

9: Pests in a census? Distorted. (9)

11: Draw the knot (3)

12: Feeling threatened, suggested concealing identity (11)

13: ...near fishing boats stocked with cold bait (5,8)

16: Varies order in command? That's debatable (13)

20: Black arts and demons concerned with Homer's issue? (4,7)

23: Behind and down and out (3)

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

25: Revolution -- or small-time? (5)

26: Ponders company portals embracing information technology (9)

27: Rooted in regressive muddleheaded isolation (5)
Down
1: To fight sunburn, he faced pain unflinchingly. (7)

2: Hungarian composer on CD extra, perhaps, with Norwegian composer (7)

3: It isnt good for a man whos batting to get a hundred in the game (9)

4: Treason destroyed Washington insider (7)

5: Core principle of taxi-o-meter? (5)

6: Antelope found in oriental country.(5

7: At sea I reused what's left (7)

10: Skin gash exists (5)

14: Wrong, or sure one is wrong (9)

15: Roy concerned with the ear being mechanical (7)

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

17: Religious observance improves personality a little (7)

18: Drunk, I'm with a couple of bimbos on top of bed (7)

19: Little one wearing hat provided boundaries (7)

21: Left a port near Dubrovnik (5)

22: Imported food injected with nitrogen (5)




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