Crossword for Fri, 2/May/2008

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Across
1: Annoying ad for toaster design? (3-2)

4: Quiet Bedouin gets half Catholic, the better to reflect heavenly things. (9)

9: Quietly pulls electrical connectors (5)

10: Craft technique for remodeling aged coupe (9)

11: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)

12: Young lady back at Kennedy gave erroneous information (9)

13: Typical! Pull over in back (7)

15: Ascendant Brazilian city supports church singing group (5)

17: Reptile eventually climbing a hill (5)

18: Narrowly beat or oust one, oddly (4,3)

19: Told a story about Rocky, a bull, and sang to sleep (9)

23: Copy of top ten missing (3)

24: Cautioned about teaching (9)

25: A vine sometimes can seem green (5)

26: Dee Star danced in two clubs recently (9)

27: I have a head nurse turning up birthmarks (5)
Down
2: Underworld biggie (and chief stoolie) is a rich and powerful person (9)

3: A driven person, Ness left wearing a beeper (9)

4: Local bounder flooded field, say, producing fruit (9)

5: Shatters ice cubes (5)

6: Ironically to the point (5)

7: Jumped for something extremely loose-fitting (5)

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

9: Aunt Peg really messed up the cheap seats (6,7)

14: New York decries eccentric period of medical training (9)

15: Cold imperialist pockets $1000 regarding ancient cousin (3-6)

16: He's on diet - ordering in addition to the main course (2,3,4)

20: Praises cricket ground in a speech (5)

21: Egad, a retracting saw (5)

22: I competed with climbers on the walls? (5)




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