Crossword for Sun, 23/Sep/2007

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Across
1: Prohibit fanatics grabbing British records showing checks and balances? (9)

5: This is always resplendent, adorning heads (5)

7: Teen unclothes poorly dressed diners (13)

10: Note old fashioned opening with 2.54 cm bird (9)

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

15: Discussed one who broadcasts mistake (5)

16: Boggy terrain didn't sink Plan C's successor? (9)

18: Model unusually creepy hat (9)

19: Between them, both sides have time for a drink. (5)

20: Faith in Osiris, lamentably (5)

21: Fears ultimately uncentered and pointless (9)

22: 'Ransom'? Lame. Run 'Rocky I', 'II', 'III', etc. (5,8)

26: Inspect gold dust without refining initially (5)

27: Segregate horses around the object of a hunt (6,3)

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1: Rocks lure a breeding fish (4,9)

2: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

3: Throw out faulty nib (3)

4: Indolence evident in Rowes Lothario (5)

5: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

6: Is Pat suitable? (3)

8: Plant sincerity (7)

9: My gal talking to Italian at the table? (5,8)

11: Melodic rearrangement of asymmetrically split second part (7)

12: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)

14: Debate again, coming from behind and vaguely in the middle (7)

17: Flower making a comeback in a phenomenal display (7)

21: Drinker taking pint from wife, perhaps (5)

23: Backblock not all there (3)

24: Number One in facetiousness (3)

25: Without it, set call for recompense (3)





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