Crossword for Fri, 8/Jan/2010

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Across
1: National official is here, carrying identification, after challenge overwhelms local center (4-9)

9: Massages were reported to be essential elements. (5)

10: Hot temperament, female, that is, stirred up sirens (9)

11: Window worker beginning to get more indolent (7)

13: Cuts back small curls (7)

14: Tries getting involved in real drama practice (9)

16: Beat writer's collaborator briefly drank (5)

17: Some gambling couple no longer in bed! (3-2)

18: Supply weapons to a fool? No! Its a South American mammal (9)

21: Sorry, Nine-A is stupid (7)

23: Those with regrets reining in destroyers (7)

24: Run a piece peculiarly devoted to the pursuit of sensual pleasures (9)

25: Love affair for one like Othello, we hear (5)

27: Shredded chad, he decrees, is one ingredient (7,6)
Down
1: Sour substance made from grape plant and fish (7)

2: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

3: Nightwear and jersey top added in afterthought (3)

4: Stabs at centre-left defences (7)

5: Crazy Sadie's notions (5)

6: Chided after empty Russian plane left the country (9)

7: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

8: Spoke disrespectfully about university being obsolete (7)

12: Stimulant produced as choir paid off (11)

15: Fullness from meal I'd put out (9)

17: Try to get ripened... it's a calamity (7)

19: Remain distraught about initially rowdy sailor (7)

20: Watch, say (7)

22: Improve me back end (5)

25: What's left when you burn the tree (3)

26: Nothing we have to pay (3)




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