Crossword for Thu, 21/Aug/2008

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Across
1: Its sad; get rid of misery! (9)

5: How Nero holds one in control (5)

8: >From play-by-play: Place where pitchers err and rock with various impurities (7)

9: Popular pickpocket is returning, tasteless (7)

10: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

12: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

14: Religious man rumoured to have been taken in by a whopper such as this. (5)

15: Certain European in age-worn convertible (9)

17: Chided after empty Russian plane left the country (9)

19: Part, or bring together (5)

20: Child, bask by the sound (3)

21: Okay shot ripped tears in butt (6-5)

23: Listened to someone without polish (7)

25: Swap our mollusc in protest (7)

26: Analyze rotten pears (5)

27: The state of a fresh garment (3,6)
Down
1: Western retreat satisfactory, accepted by canoeists and surfers? (3,8)

2: Exegesis of clue an idiot misunderstood (11)

3: One segment of recording is a kind of poem (7)

4: Is South about to evacuate? Just the opposite! (5)

5: Big stink-up. Location is disgusting (7)

6: Unappealing environment for a snooze (3)

7: Road without a pole (4)

11: Put on University of Texas ring (5)

12: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

13: A Hollywood star upset about paparazzi hub in crude social event (6,5)

16: Security chief purged a pair of generals (5)

18: Our tree worked out how to send out in another way (7)

19: Father's wise migration (7)

22: It's a blessing, comprehending RandB (5)

23: Lick up pal (3)

24: See, you are a cad. (3)




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