Crossword for Tue, 10/Mar/2009

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Across
1: Standard style of music rejected (3)

3: Criticise a computer analysis of famous passage (6,5)

9: Bizarre night entity (5)

11: New Orleans, an Italian city (7)

12: Bury in the empty sepulcher, eventually (5)

13: Happy faces disturb economist (9)

14: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)

16: Encourage horse led with direction. (3)

18: Bloody bored inside (3)

19: Trashy dime novel about American sex symbol who's not all there? (5,2,4)

20: Summaries of car option pamphlets (9)

22: Fiber extracted from thistles (5)

23: Most capacious, having little and small in great combination (7)

25: Vigorous beer (5)

26: Bright-sounding agenda touches on heavyweight legend (5,6)

27: Lifeblood of dope (3)

Down
1: Applies root of turnips (4,2,3)

2: French king rested after a tumble and swaggered (9)

4: Plate through the nose for lasso (5)

5: Figures wrong girl is hugging nobleman (9)

6: Illness I catch performing exercises? (13)

7: Neither's partner participated in an orchestra (3)

8: Reel around in circles (5)

10: Dry vegetarian, about to like this puzzle, perhaps? (6, 7)

15: Pasta leads to eccentric crime boss losing head (9)

16: Otis and Vince mad for being thrown out repeatedly (9)

17: Stop-Go see funny type of march! (5,4)

20: Too bad about first of tests for strong man (5)

21: A great drink. (5)

24: Control escape (3)





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