Crossword for Mon, 15/Sep/2008

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Across
1: No right to secret desire (5)

4: Recorder describes Mr. Quayle: a little crazy person, quick on his feet (3-6)

9: How to eat the heart of marsupial (3)

10: Enticements disrupt mental rules (11)

11: Minor change in the White House? (6-3-4)

13: Kowtow endlessly, awfully neglectful (9)

14: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

16: Start reducing salt? (3)

18: Got off the coach tired, on Eastern time (9)

22: National official is here, carrying identification, after challenge overwhelms local center (4-9)

23: Sent one page rewritten in military lingo (11)

24: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

26: Closely observes public transport viewing problem (9)

27: Putter smeared with dark, sticky goo (5)
Down
1: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

2: Sixpence for big cheese? (1.1.1.)

3: Kind of blue hereafter, at heart; this might tell what's to come? (3,4)

4: Farmland female comes back covered with baked clay (7)

5: Each retiring bachelor's promise finally cast in stone (7)

6: Cupboard built using a royal pattern (7)

7: Privy to accessibility (11)

8: We hear actor Paul is one on the way up (5)

11: Dark mysterious thing (5)

12: Invention to trick four into a stupor (11)

15: Down by one shot (5)

17: Lately, liking to spell? (7)

18: Mistakenly laid mop in sheepskin (7)

19: The control is over that way (7)

20: Dryest arts die painfully (7)

21: Abundant specimen doffing cap (5)

24: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

25: Looks like an eyesore, sounds like an eyesore (3)




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