Crossword for Sun, 17/May/2009

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Across
1: Ceases running features about Republican in serious trouble (4,7)

6: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

8: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

10: I see marks on jumbled party favors (11)

11: Backblock not all there (3)

12: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

13: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)

15: Raced around a tree (5)

17: Hit for designer Vera, reportedly (5)

19: After a second, whip and rip (5)

21: Leaving firm when dating (5,6)

23: You audibly ram partner (3)

24: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

25: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

26: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

27: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)
Down
1: An exceptionally attractive person may be met aboard (9)

2: Cavities from wrong practices (7)

3: Level called for salary increase (5)

4: Hearty policeman plugs frozen treats (3,6)

5: Without regard, seed and water plants (7)

6: Shredded chad, he decrees, is one ingredient (7,6)

7: Ideas educate to reveal that things have relaxed.(5)

9: Princesses's attendant, yawning, laid it out (4-2-7)

14: Moving haltingly, stopping short of the end (about a foot), by sundown (9)

16: Me in a green tent's ultimate in harmony (9)

18: Increase a nutmeg's nuttiness? (7)

20: Fools around near hellholes (7)

21: Reptile eventually climbing a hill (5)

22: A grain or a nut (5)




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