Crossword for Tue, 27/Nov/2007

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Across
2: One hundred listed as 'washed up' (7)

5: Very loud intrusion spoiled its cross words (5)

8: Blowing siren over corruption on the job (2-7)

10: Dress up fakes without a shred of compunction (5)

11: Good girls in spectacles (7)

13: Venture to comment, 'War God stands in light' (7)

14: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

15: Ceases running features about Republican in serious trouble (4,7)

17: Bobbed beneath in playful attempt to drown journalist. (6, 5)

18: No one told sister (3)

19: Date for Roman candles to be ordered (7)

21: Gather and count to the next-highest multiple (5,2)

23: Steel is ruined, nearly destroyed (5)

24: Remote and barbarous Irish school (5,4)

26: Poverty-stricken, longing to rise up and get education (5)

27: Mad? O, yes! Mad dog! (7)
Down
1: Half-resembling flashy jewellery (5)

2: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

3: 27-across about starting off 1-down world unconditionally (2,3,2,4)

4: Pass mould (3)

5: Teaching assistants run into hospital facility for shocker (5)

6: Just grazed the pasty? (4-7)

7: Observed, yet seen so poorly (3,4,2)

9: Side with university after regarding the 'left behind' matter (7)

12: Sadly curtail urge for land cultivation (11)

13: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)

14: Drug problem for 100, in sum (9)

16: Our tree worked out how to send out in another way (7)

20: Poor year after Eden lost (5)

22: Prom couple steals crown from teen dress up (5)

24: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)

25: Help found in Adelaide. (3)




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