Crossword for Tue, 5/Feb/2008

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Across
2: Pay in gym before deli spread (5)

5: One providing funds for last one in debt (7)

7: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

8: Keeps, in vases, bananas (5)

9: Gather together for a church service. (5)

12: It administers medicine to a clumsy one (7)

13: Drudge from Los Angeles, one who makes you yawn (7)

14: Gutter seamstress (5)

15: Tossing and turning, I wondered what the comforter might be made of (9)

17: Alludes to convicts holding up Italian (9)

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

20: Paul wears shirt the wrong way to provide shoulder covering (7)

22: One in Dickens role is Sir Laurence (7)

23: Amazingly idle - why give up? (5)

24: Weird canal echo (5)

25: You audibly ram partner (3)

26: Small boat from County Clare, possibly (7)

27: We turned up with endless Irish pitchers (5)
Down
1: Secretly include railroad in family future (13)

2: Leo, wealthy, wig awry, looking awfully old! (6,4,3)

3: Aliens work infrared thrust (7)

4: Bird and man going different ways (9)

5: As in 'Lee goes back to the drawing board' (5)

6: Confederate poet returned with rather less sparkle (7)

10: Rise as in throw, perhaps, showing fitness to fly (13)

11: Reformed drinker helps a water distributor (9,4)

16: Conversation to completely stop about scrubs (9)

18: Old mice refreshed in tune (7)

19: Nearly nail half of veterans for childishness (7)

21: The idea -- a little meal filled you once (5)




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