Crossword for Sat, 11/Apr/2009

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Across
1: Color orange upset poet something terrible (5,4)

5: Question number one (5)

8: Draw the knot (3)

10: Sycophant of knowledge, essentially, in those scoring 1600? (9)

11: Orchestra playing for farm animal (4,5)

13: Is this small cockatoo a fool? (5)

14: Cant this band collect any moss? (7,6)

17: 'Ransom'? Lame. Run 'Rocky I', 'II', 'III', etc. (5,8)

19: Inherently reproach affinity for worthless stuff (5)

21: Add pantry to make dude! (9)

23: Difficult newspaper or novel (4,5)

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

26: Sigh audibly about fool giving lip (5)

27: Dotty rides around corrals with someone who passes out (9)
Down
1: Iridescent stone contains quirk having to do with vision (7)

2: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

3: Part turning two ways (5)

4: Bird dog bites boisterous lad (4,5)

5: Leaving firm when dating (5,6)

6: Perfect conviction ends trial (5)

7: Shelter Dracula's heart - he's representing blood-suckers (7)

9: Something that may move a hammer to engineer a murder (7)

12: No hefty role at sea for ship-launcher (5,2,4)

15: Flooded out and united (9)

16: No saint takes strong drink as a remedy (7)

17: Judges playing conkers? (7)

18: Revolver pointing up and down (7)

20: Trains without commanding officer and suffers (5)

22: Identifies men as displaced - best not to be one at 34's (5)

24: Without it, set call for recompense (3)




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