Crossword for Sat, 21/Jun/2008

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Across
1: Mortified humans - fifty per cent felt great pity (7)

4: Warning: Reverend Spooner's run off with newspaper (3,4)

8: In the manner of a girl (3)

9: Tool placed under sack as a safety precaution (4,5)

10: Seize broadcast mogul (7)

11: Discharge from Greek island (7)

12: Nude redhead receiving backward glance is one serving drinks (9)

15: A journey to the east? What nonsense! (5)

17: Proficient in arithmetic, starting with short division (5)

18: Dry out. Heated? Dry out (9)

19: Mobster at heart, presently I'll be carrying expensive pistol on hip (7)

21: Pacino returns with story about Northern Italian dish (7)

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

25: Cleaning aid possessed by Fragonard (3)

26: Thirteenth in a series, ER's about an Aussie racketeer who took repeated slams? (7)

27: Glass part of lock (7)
Down
1: Catch the sound of the first organ (5)

2: People going to Silver Lake to find animal collection (9)

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

4: Metallic element forming excellent electrical connection (4,5)

5: Died terribly - ate in. CD inscribed in affection (9)

6: Tours river, merging initial impressions with remembered legends (5)

7: Duck putting string on ancient peeper (9)

9: What this puzzle is (3)

12: Eighteen rounds initially served in golf-club bar (9)

13: Captures openings (9)

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

16: First popular promise - extreme appeal (9)

20: Head of the Venetians bagging dead duck (5)

21: Non-clerical song (3)

22: Vapour in the street the final morning (5)

23: Argue about something boring (5)




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