Crossword for Wed, 3/Feb/2010

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Across
1: Lead around other green (7)

5: Unsettled boxer (5)

10: Drive away roofing material before farmhouse becomes a target area (8,5)

12: Former name for joint audition (3)

13: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

14: Dance to old home recording (3 4)

15: Essentially, what boy is wearing (3,2)

16: Duck putting string on ancient peeper (9)

17: Thoroughly dismissed - twice! (3,3,3)

20: Leaves summons (5)

22: Thirteenth in a series, ER's about an Aussie racketeer who took repeated slams? (7)

23: Vet theatre opening 8-down (3)

24: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)

25: Cat linked stories to the underworld (8-5)

26: Witticism provided theme (5)

27: It's over, over, over, kept apart by past payment (7)
Down
2: Enormous brutes of Nebraska football team briefly changed; tackle substituted for left end (7)

3: The last movement produces great passion (7)

4: Bugler to stand playing in fields of war (13)

6: Retinue and company again go round, get back (7)

7: Get zany, swimming in exotic river (7)

8: Free sex, lips in beer; it's beyond words (13)

9: Teen unclothes poorly dressed diners (13)

11: Let not passion sway philosophers (3-10)

18: Dopey met hero with a proposition (7)

19: Narrowly beat or oust one, oddly (4,3)

20: I clean up around architect's ruined city (7)

21: American boxer entering kind of club in Middle East region (7)




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