Crossword for Mon, 19/Feb/2007

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Across
1: Not here? No, no! (5)

4: Country encircling one's country (9)

7: I am reported to leer (3)

8: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

9: Gloomy semi-dull firmament (5)

10: Mineral springs start to moderate involuntary muscular contraction (5)

11: Study a French instrument - it's a puzzle (9)

12: San Francisco athlete captures wild boar, an obvious choice (2-7)

13: Messages transmitted about a mile (1-4)

14: A quaintly pleasing accent (5)

16: His stable is unstable, it's found (9)

18: Coats need woven yarns (9)

19: Roosevelt's undergarment? (5)

21: Adore inconstant nymph (5)

22: Wicker basket a North American Indian left (5)

25: Perform part of play (3)

26: Came back on a diet anew and wasted away (9)

27: Belated top-and-tailing to gladden one's heart (5)
Down
2: We blame knitter for small woolly jumper (3-4)

3: Encourage horse led with direction. (3)

4: Frost to cover the cake (3)

5: The star of 'Ellen' has at folks with substandard morals (11)

6: Unfathomable letters from Lamb, say (7)

7: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

9: Ball mislaid? Caned (5)

11: Mend a split state (11)

14: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)

15: Stopped and looked after blowing top (5)

17: State goddess gets in first (7)

20: However, you expect trouble at first (3)

23: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

24: Fiction position (3)




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