Crossword for Fri, 4/Jul/2008

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Across
1: Dopey stunt (5)

4: Cynical Cajun died exercising (9)

8: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)

9: Sadly curtail urge for land cultivation (11)

11: Sparks from auto backing up over tree (7)

12: Refined women suppressing desires, principally for boys (7)

13: Compete with life in France (3)

14: Pretty girl takes part in outdoor cooking? No just toys (6, 5).

16: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

19: Bumped into yours truly at junction (3).

20: Bill is after Chuck to discipline (7)

21: Work on a site for Baltic state (7)

24: Be prepared with amnesties for truancy (11)

25: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

26: Doctor singes off top of sore and bandages (9)

27: I'm to get older in picture (5)

Down
1: Fairy tale character concealed in simulated war front (5)

2: Mean to declare how old you are (7)

3: Loudly scourge and expose oneself (5)

4: Prejudice runs wild in a legal system (13)

5: Deceived, died, dodged (7)

6: Decisive curl twisting around spy body (7)

7: Padre's sensibly covering attire (5)

10: Then, one crisis ends after call is for healthy exercises (13)

13: Vicar regularly outdated technology (1.1.1.)

15: Take Chair in university (3)

17: Part of American's eerie pronouncement after a miracle (1,3,3)

18: Ignore the first of itineraries for excursions (6)

19: Pitman's state goddess (7)

20: Reportedly burned beet (5)

22: Rates of movement for the last politician entering it backwards (5)

23: Water plants used in informal Gaelic gardens (5)





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