Crossword for Wed, 13/Feb/2008

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Across
1: Note vehicle in picture puzzle (5)

3: A state, see - one in America - one with an American capital (9)

7: One later enters, like, with matching sides (11)

10: Fool to join recital (3)

11: Whip up last cocktail slings! (9)

12: Faith in Osiris, lamentably (5)

13: Confined bear without a trade (9)

14: Expose to heat in opening of red-hot kiln (5)

16: Many sound prospects for prospectors (5)

18: Massive dinosaur hiding in Antigua? No, Donna! (9)

20: Massage central skeleton for money (5)

22: Cast Miss Stone for dewy quality (9)

23: Small piece of fish (3)

24: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

26: Nationals eating spy? Gross! (9)

27: Adore inconstant nymph (5)
Down
1: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

2: Lecher in bed was full of hot air (9)

3: Something good made by dwarf barber, perhaps! (6,7)

4: Fighter to join around fourth of April (7)

5: Record left by teacher in Siam (5)

6: Android's gold love-apple close to Krypton (9)

8: Courses finish with Decline and Fall (5)

9: Dangerous undertaking skiers in busy S bend (5,8)

13: Poet or old king on crest (9)

15: Recipient of drink describing gown with energy (9)

17: Dexterity is an insult, so we hear (7)

19: Nick's not at church (5)

21: 15-across Something good that blinds copper (5,7)

25: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)




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