Crossword for Sun, 21/Feb/2010

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Across
1: Difficult book about Baltic currency (11)

7: Worthless even when recycled (3)

9: A small rig is something worth having (5)

10: Square dance queen with gold filling stalks dentist, perhaps, most of the way back?? (9)

11: Double profit repeatedly (5,3,5)

12: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

13: Black arts and demons concerned with Homer's issue? (4,7)

16: 15-acrosss toilet pot? Rubbish! (5,6)

19: I shall be sick! (3)

22: Bug found in examination and in a full going-over (10,3)

23: One who wanders amidst fantastic text is one who is very outgoing (9)

25: Homer's travail: 'I don't finish daily retreat.' (5)

26: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

27: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)
Down
1: Hikers' path around Virginia is hard work (7)

2: Assault on SandL comes to nothing (9)

3: It's on the coast of Australia - a tree discovered by science (6,3)

4: Mrs. Roosevelt East, Trim, Oregon (7)

5: Strangely, Salerno is a city in France (7)

6: In fear of wheat head (3)

7: A humorous writer or two (5)

8: Puff from lips into hat (5)

14: Spread of the ocean encompassing fish (9)

15: Miser manufactured Finn's kilt (9)

17: Vet injured spine before court (7)

18: This'll sound like a Scottish emblem (7)

20: Hollywood location less than clean (7)

21: Influenced by sound material (5)

22: Pound off top of door--what's inside? (5)

24: Choose to take the top off (3)




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