Crossword for Sat, 17/Jan/2009

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Across
2: Something useful - like a matching collection? (5)

5: Slimeball guards existence in French refuge (7)

9: Lick up pal (3)

10: Leaving firm when dating (5,6)

12: Talk about rent for a piece of property (7)

15: After Vermouth, I seem about to list (7)

16: Stories least translated (5)

17: City flat is swamped by sweets, almost (9)

18: Instrument for beater caught with liquor (5,4)

19: Threefold test (5)

21: Spoke disrespectfully about university being obsolete (7)

22: Unidentified street across the Mountains (7)

23: Girl mostly into turning inside out - it's never ending! (11)

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

26: Quickly assemble dry pail (7)

27: Composer employed in hotel garage (5)
Down
1: 'Wrong and sick,' I quote... almost (7)

2: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)

3: Bend in the middle and wind back (3)

4: Diet, sir! Clergy upset with fat constituents (13)

6: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)

7: Arranged date in Cairo means extermination (11)

8: Herb talked about the fourth dimension (5)

11: Mild guess: I die reassembling a nasty weapon (6,7)

13: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

14: Mixed greens and teals, so dad's remodeled (6,5)

20: Shelter Dracula's heart - he's representing blood-suckers (7)

21: Miserable raise follows poor grade (5)

24: Feel sick from crack? (3)

25: Freshen the atmosphere (3)




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