Crossword for Sat, 16/Dec/2006

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Across
1: Draw one above Indian hut (7)

4: Between Virginia and Los Angeles nothing has flavour (7)

7: Talked about an urban area in the NW (7)

9: Guided into the West (2,3)

11: Then, one crisis ends after call is for healthy exercises (13)

14: Bury 'im for the meantime (7)

15: sliced again with cuter swing (5)

18: Conservative interrupting nobody for the time being (5)

20: One might be uplifted if a cockney spoke of arts such as opera. (7)

21: End inner-value conversion in UK taxes (6,7)

22: Get rid of former spouse on passing train (5)

24: Fools around near hellholes (7)

26: Fish or insect for captain (7)

27: No time for metal in name only (7)
Down
2: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

3: Apparition in Hampton maze (7)

4: Compete with life in France (3)

5: Clothilda is carrying a parcel (3)

6: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

8: Little bitty lines on a letter from Athens (7)

10: Western retreat satisfactory, accepted by canoeists and surfers? (3,8)

12: Language making a comeback in modern Italy (5)

13: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

16: Splits sticks (7)

17: I turn, lost, in Italian city (5)

19: One may be a very long time (3)

20: Before much time has elapsed a nobleman takes that over there (5,2)

23: Part of upside-down Greek letter (3)

24: Song is a gas (3)

25: Sounds like a bright child (3).




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