Crossword for Sat, 10/Feb/2007

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Across
1: French singer eats bit of leftover rice dish (5)

4: Annie is crazy? Stupid! (7)

9: Quicksilver messenger (7)

10: Faith in Osiris, lamentably (5)

11: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

13: Heavy metal group X (4)

15: Language - one with a Latin derivation (7)

18: A sign Tommy's upset about patrol leader (7)

19: Standard style of music rejected (3)

21: Mend a split state (11)

23: Di returned to me in France: back for the turn of phrase. (5)

24: Adult party to entertain disheartened women (5-2)

26: Leaves permitted by cute cook (7)

27: In Howard's End - one has a passage here from Forster (5)

Down
2: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

3: Dowdiest rear in Mexican party, almost (9)

5: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

6: Skier's heart rivals climbers (5)

7: Hellish center for immigration? (5)

8: Who smuggled the odd athlete? (3,6)

9: Ran into a section of the time-table (3)

12: Left with pal carrying new gold case (11)

13: Conductor of opera rising in encore (9)

14: Plan to return with woman (3)

16: With greater reason for a riot I riot (1,8)

17: One politician's a brat (3)

20: Shakespeare character speaking overhead (5)

21: Heavenly visitor to arrive on time (5)

22: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

25: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)





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