Crossword for Sat, 24/Mar/2007

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Across
1: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

3: Questionable realtor robs preacher (4,7)

8: Bunch takes advantage of floating plants (7)

11: Supplied guns in gendarme division (5)

12: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

14: Perform part of play (3)

16: Space left by dry loch (9)

17: Massages were reported to be essential elements. (5)

18: Short line in letter back-fires (5)

19: Suspiciously detain cad -- he may be trying to get into the house (9)

21: Former name for joint audition (3)

22: Intruders bury proles in pieces (11).

23: Tie torn coats (7)

24: Old pies thrown in sack (7)

26: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)

27: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)
Down
1: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

2: Worthless even when recycled (3)

4: Desires evil lives (7)

5: Brando rinsing out identification tools (8,5)

6: Wizards covered in liquor and beer...it might be for charity (7, 4)

7: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

9: Awful din; ill effects were her own doing (4-9)

10: Influenced by sound material (5)

13: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

15: Mixed greens and teals, so dad's remodeled (6,5)

19: Food provider for tom and two queens (7)

20: Cheyenne Mountain installation produces radon mixture (5)

23: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

25: Nothing we have to pay (3)




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