Crossword for Mon, 1/Oct/2007

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Across
2: Call to drink like feeding ducks? (7,2)

7: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

9: Flower shop nosh about $41 (5)

10: Mata Hari flitting around eastern part of old Palestine (9)

11: Nut hounds famed Arizona shooter for something to deaden the noise (7)

13: Come before chief of police, and back off (7)

14: Foreign car, in neutral, crashed (7)

15: Big affectionate bears blunder (5)

17: Britannia - she never has blanched (5)

18: Stormed loudly and held the throne (7)

21: More luxurious eatery accommodates six (7)

23: Ed goes in cleaner place for Sleepy (7)

24: Merry-go-round made from a vehicle with wake-up lamps in front (9)

25: Down by one shot (5)

26: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

27: Cringingly escape around canopy (9)
Down
1: One appears at jetty to lead the way (7)

2: Civil War battle in Pamplona? (7)

3: Heavy metal group X (4)

4: University boards tailless orange and light brown ape (9)

5: Cut corners and omit taking minutes (5)

6: Fancied poem composed in comfort (5,2,4)

7: Get with a Chicago threesome, the night before a big event (7)

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

12: Discounting losing one's sense of humour? (8,3)

15: Soldier embracing a bawdy Italian patriot (9)

16: Exotic cider as cocktail (7)

17: Opposed to commercial lyrics. . . (7)

19: Do annoy suspect when both hands are up? (7)

20: Popular book impounded by British police after revolution (7)

22: Repair stitching that flares Ewok cloaks (5)

25: Bend in the middle and wind back (3)




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