Crossword for Tue, 12/Aug/2008

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Across
2: Priestess betrays Sen. Kefauver (5)

5: Providing cash for pleasure - many a mixed drink! (7)

8: Hate because sailor gets a head start in Oregon (5)

9: Patrick Team cooked chicken (5,4)

11: Meat and drink kept as refreshment? (4,5)

12: South of France, an African country (5)

13: Prejudice runs wild in a legal system (13)

15: Princesses's attendant, yawning, laid it out (4-2-7)

20: Laughable Democratic line-up (5)

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

24: Authoritative feline vet, perhaps, spreading cure (9)

25: Selected last of acrylic socks (5)

26: Chosen one renders deer fat (7)

27: Come back in just a pseudo pair of shoes (5)
Down
1: Loud den has style! (5)

2: Fifty are returning after the last hemp mixture has a short life cycle (9)

3: Believes in harnessing hydrogen for sources of propulsion (7)

4: Rose was refined, but would never make a silk purse (4,3)

5: G-man covering beat lit up Bic? (7)

6: 'Naked Gun' actor prepares to be dubbed in (in soundtrack) (7)

7: Get bunger out for renowned German printer (9)

10: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

13: Cynical Cajun died exercising (9)

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

16: Strip of soil bearing large heads of Belgian endive (7)

17: I am starting to sail in Lake Dunk (7)

18: Flutter the eyelids over the French shellfish (7)

19: 'I'm at the top! I am chairman of Chrysler Corporation of America.' (7)

21: On the canvas from third strike (3)

23: Reportedly, looked at sea serpent as exemplar (5)




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