Crossword for Tue, 17/Mar/2009

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Across
1: Drunkard turns up near beach, reversing new habit, to sleep fitfully (4,3,4)

5: Draw a stomach uprising (3)

7: Handle small round piece of charcoal (9)

9: No likey the sound of this Caribbean republic! (5)

10: Heretic repented, holding tissue (5)

12: Ambush late-rising with auditors load (3,2,4)

14: Concerning story can be made good (9)

16: Reptile eventually climbing a hill (5)

18: Drinker taking pint from wife, perhaps (5)

19: I can still hit a little bit (9)

20: Brief inclination to include likely candidates (5,4)

21: Delay yield (5)

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

25: Record that it was to insult (2,3,4)

26: Scale Ten after taxes (3)

27: 28 Invitation for man to get a cent on November 5? (5,3,3,3)

Down
1: Evaluation pack of standard images (4,5)

2: Fur seal frolicking around entrance to bay (5)

3: Repeated note to help player? (6-7)

4: Solo, the pilot rises? No way (3)

5: Roll dirt and clay round tip of thumb with three fingers (9)

6: Culpability starts to goad us into leaving town (5)

8: Nick shouts - and theres trouble brewing! (3,5,2,3)

11: Make money and set out to be serious (7)

13: Cancelled requirement to carry gun (7)

15: Underworld biggie (and chief stoolie) is a rich and powerful person (9)

17: Set out again for back stove (9)

20: A chair may be material (5)

22: Refuse to obey a French hooligan (5)

24: Tweak with wrong end of a pin (3)





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