Crossword for Sat, 28/Jun/2008

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Across
1: Failure to remember Bach work (5)

4: Offering advice, King takes over one bit, zany initially (9)

9: It isnt good for a man whos batting to get a hundred in the game (9)

10: Mousy girlfriend loses head and bellybutton (5)

11: Servile son, first prodigal (7)

12: Herb gets into place for icy dessert (7)

13: Ambush late-rising with auditors load (3,2,4)

14: The time before the first woman (3)

15: Lifeblood of dope (3)

17: Its very like a mess; rebel appears at fault (9)

21: Dilapidated city slum without question a source of sectariansim. (7)

23: Name of girl training otter in Los Angeles (7)

24: It may be used in candy or brought back in taxi (5)

25: They say the headmaster should be guided by this (9)

26: Heels were repaired in another place (9)

27: 'Log-in failed', in technical terms (5)

Down
2: Duck turning up initially looking like a Walt Disney animated goose (7)

3: Structure artifice wherein Mr. Carney becomes Norton (7)

4: Ken harbors desire for French cuisine (7)

5: Rings for the groups (5)

6: Audible attempt to get clique cut in three (7)

7: Played Bingo at the French base (7)

8: Canadian water ordered for regal tea-break (5,4,4)

9: Shifting financial fortunes cause industry revolution (8,5)

16: Star first overhauls top landholding, bolstered by French capital (7)

17: Benign omen said to govern lover (7)

18: Ordering a meal is causing uneasiness (7)

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

20: Attack raise with no return (3,4)

22: Boy gripping top of pine tree (5)





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