Crossword for Wed, 26/Dec/2007

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Across
1: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)

5: Compete with life in France (3)

7: After arrival, pair of ghosts making noise of frustration (5)

9: Gainers demonstrated by swimming baritones (9)

11: Shorten a game (7)

13: Central matter for physicists luncheon: rocks releasing hydrogen (7)

15: Paraphrasing 'A Certain Sport': 'Wait till next year!' (13)

17: Repeated note to help player? (6-7)

19: Deciphered code in a sea-nymph (7)

21: Freedom of action in desert (7)

22: Went ahead and used the power button (7,2)

24: Coal remaining at the end of a month (5)

26: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

27: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)

Down
1: Dinner trousers get sodden at drinks. (4)

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

3: Rebs to can fresh edible crustacean from southern states (5,4)

4: Decimal, in many cases (5)

5: I've lost struggle (3)

6: English scenes reproduced for 'Nature' (7)

8: With Starr finally out, Hyde's plan simply loses traction in a way (11)

10: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

12: Strike true form with cloud nine (7)

14: Raised the former Mr. Gore and Mr. Kennedy (7)

16: Bore spotted outside of U.S. (9)

17: It administers medicine to a clumsy one (7)

18: Fit so much in French drink (7)

20: English lead getting into the pants of guys (5)

23: One may be a very long time (3)

25: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)





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