Crossword for Fri, 26/Jun/2009

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Across
1: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

3: Inept casino confused the issue (4,2,5)

9: Startled, grabs sailor (3)

10: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)

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

12: Fewer chant Sumo beaten (3,2,4)

13: Reformed drinker helps a water distributor (9,4)

15: Charles talked about pictures of sea creatures (6,2,5)

19: Tom Cruise playing an outfitter (9)

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

23: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

25: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)

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

27: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)
Down
1: Flower - say, in Victoria's province - to raise (9)

2: Get rid of Bush (5)

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

4: Take Chair in university (3)

5: A period set around one Dostoyevsky character (5)

6: One who reads each consumer (7)

7: Unwelcome visitors oddly unstirred (9)

8: Your leg? (5)

12: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

13: Trim waist in figure (9)

14: End is close, doctor surreptitiously revealed (9)

16: Advice on clues to be anagrammed (7)

17: Escalating naked conflict (3)

18: Little one wearing hat provided boundaries (7)

19: Skin gash exists (5)

20: Claim agent has vision (5)

22: Farm branches, in part (5)

24: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)




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