Crossword for Sun, 5/Oct/2008

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Across
1: Plan to return with woman (3)

3: Girl hatches subterfuge in prison tower (11)

9: Mend a split state (11)

10: Rascal and wuss taking week off (3)

11: Its near the tradesmens entrance after dark (5)

12: ESP school worried ancient dramatist (9)

13: It's big where some Ambassadors are at? (5)

14: Emblem of sovereignty that was a quarter-pounder? (5)

15: Clothilda is carrying a parcel (3)

16: Five kills one. (3)

17: Fittingly, use following heart transplant (5)

18: Drunk held firmly (5)

19: Actress Ann admits painting one's sorrow (9)

22: Original North American time precedes 'America Latina' (5)

24: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

25: 27-across about starting off 1-down world unconditionally (2,3,2,4)

26: Pick up line for first man swinging both ways? (5,2,4)

27: Animal hiding in abattoir (3)
Down
1: Tippecanoe is home to a nut (5)

2: Wild ermine encaged years here?! (9)

3: Feminine articles put in case (7)

4: Singers in a special Tosca production (5)

5: California business providing front for fraudulent racket (9)

6: Disappointment for French village around 1st of December (7)

7: Question number one (5)

8: Sort of collection to compose print (7)

14: Edited schematic religious text (9)

15: Delicate stem is enlightening (5,4)

16: Time has corroded faithlessness (7)

17: All for naught, perhaps; not many upset (7)

18: Fit so much in French drink (7)

20: Supplied guns in gendarme division (5)

21: Ideas educate to reveal that things have relaxed.(5)

23: Famous pianist's inclination for vocalizing (5)




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