Crossword for Tue, 22/Mar/2011

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Across
1: Secures a term and travels (4,5)

6: Inherently reproach affinity for worthless stuff (5)

9: Record Buttrose with acidity in her final judgment (7)

10: Belated top-and-tailing to gladden one's heart (5)

11: Stop fooling around with her at tea break (4,1,8)

12: and 2 Curses! Dons the parodists (4,3,7,2)

14: Silver cap for crewless name (7)

15: Novel payment dominating class (7)

17: Napoleonic site on Web is reactionary, very likely (7)

20: Actor works on two dialects (5,8)

24: Elected to instruct audit of electronic giant (5)

25: Artist portrays Manx sow, carefree cassowary? (7)

26: Stopped and looked after blowing top (5)

27: Smokey's threat turning up deep in northern parts (5,4)
Down
1: Visitor made an estimate when audited (5)

2: Stupid alien filmed in undergrowth (7)

3: English post-punk singer was very determined. (7)

4: Mom going topless--that's something else (5)

5: Rent dinner suit at drapers? Not Des! (4,5)

6: European King's threat reported (5)

7: A poor horse to run into a revised composition (7)

8: Work independently in France, catching fish (9)

12: Animal or container in tree (9)

13: Nationals eating spy? Gross! (9)

16: Yielded gutlessly, taking in hopeless cheat as he sailed by. (7)

18: Observed, like hot tea? (7)

19: One who is just observing shocking Serb row. (7)

21: I had been at the front, and retired (5)

22: Thick maple growing wild (5)

23: Hang poor Democrat from the east (5)




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