Crossword for Mon, 17/Aug/2009

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Across
1: Nixon's engaging Guevara in scraps (7)

4: Immerse in massive sound (7)

8: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

10: Plan to return with woman (3)

11: Cant this band collect any moss? (7,6)

12: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

14: Feeling threatened, suggested concealing identity (11)

16: Clearances for the first couple of characters to find answers. (11)

19: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

21: Fling an item of furniture (3,5,5)

24: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

25: E.g., told story about cave-men (11)

26: Declare leniency even heartless to be this! (7)

27: Iridescent stone contains quirk having to do with vision (7)
Down
2: Threefold test (5)

3: Dexterity is an insult, so we hear (7)

4: Seabird coming back around by mistake (7)

5: Pick a wrong angle (5)

6: Slippery deck spots are on either side (9)

7: Mad? O, yes! Mad dog! (7)

8: Remove a couple of statues before writing on some tombstones (5)

9: Insignificant trial includes six from old Rome (7)

13: See chess piece: king suffering hard loss (9)

15: Spoke disrespectfully about university being obsolete (7)

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

17: Essay about one mathematical function in three volumes (7)

18: Old Testament greeting for Moorish general (7)

20: English lead getting into the pants of guys (5)

22: Englishman opening a can to dine at home (3,2)

23: Language of first and last detective (5)




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