Crossword for Thu, 17/Jan/2008

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Across
1: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)

3: Fancied poem composed in comfort (5,2,4)

8: Check out tailless fish swallowing speck of dust with hand-held device (6,7)

10: March follower off with pair left behind (5)

11: Sad, sad strands of Gershwin tunes, for instance (9)

13: Crazy, angered, mad, (7)

15: Broken home rid of beneficiarys condition (7)

17: Watch, say (7)

19: Employ new, rare chemical compound (7)

21: Bigoted, ideological extremes in preamble to bill are misguided (9)

23: At hand no competent help (5)

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

26: Hostile warning: one man has captured the queen (11)

27: Unappealing environment for a snooze (3)

Down
1: Refuse to reveal how old clothes are (7)

2: Cover-ups of some Mexican heads reflected in more angry disorderly mobs (9)

3: Leaf in fancy plate (5)

4: Charged a couple of hundred, getting exploited (7)

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

6: Tool placed under sack as a safety precaution (4,5)

7: Lazy person paid Leroy a little (5)

9: A revolutionary New England state or an Indian state (5)

12: What's left when you burn the tree (3)

14: Soldier embracing a bawdy Italian patriot (9)

16: Curse the mother country? (9)

17: Disgusting donut turned a greenish color (5)

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

19: Head is about to allow artists colour range (7)

20: Appears that fine car is elevated (5,2)

22: Bad call involving entrance to our neighborhood (5)

23: Proficient in arithmetic, starting with short division (5)

25: Frost to cover the cake (3)





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