Crossword for Sat, 19/Apr/2008

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Across
1: Tramp and rake over green (5)

5: Smart attempt to encircle a city (7)

9: Girl hatches subterfuge in prison tower (11)

11: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

12: Prolong Austins suffering (7)

13: Tunes aware of dirigible (7)

15: One embracing a lover with a little pizzazz (7)

16: Sailor takes gym class to slim down (5)

18: Beat writer's collaborator briefly drank (5)

19: Movie star kind of hot for date (7)

20: Doctor's swell operating (7)

22: Ricola melting to carbon, driven by heat (7)

23: Inactive side (3)

25: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

26: Non-professional laggard goes underground (4,3)

27: Comes last in frightfully easy assessment (5)
Down
1: Train sets notwithstanding (9)

2: Hang back, keeping right next to person buying a jumper (11)

3: Charmed - then dance about (9)

4: End inner-value conversion in UK taxes (6,7)

6: Plant in the edges of the first row (5)

7: Five kills one. (3)

8: Flower shop nosh about $41 (5)

10: Little weight spoils head honcho in sophisticated secondary institute (7,6)

14: Healers swear by the cases of the little river horse. (11)

16: Model unpredictable dial to shake in natural disaster (5,4)

17: Rally has promotion I created primarily in a new way (9)

20: Wind coils up (5)

21: Get rid of former spouse on passing train (5)

24: Cook small fish. (3)




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