Crossword for Wed, 23/Dec/2009

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Across
2: Awful din; ill effects were her own doing (4-9)

9: Period email feature (3)

10: Britannia - she never has blanched (5)

11: Compiler retains memory of emotional episode (5)

12: Singers in a special Tosca production (5)

14: Secure below mountain climbing station (9)

15: Emergency room stocks one sensitive organ (3)

16: Shout the chaps to initial therapy.(9)

18: Believer taking blame for counselor (9)

21: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

22: Man arrives at a low scrubland (9)

23: Not exactly the most recent coffee (5)

24: Flower festival is pointless (5)

25: Digs for leads in homicide of the elderly lady (5)

27: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

28: Beat it and ran, for example, with Girl Scout ingredients (9,4)
Down
1: Foolishly get pardon from patron (9)

2: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

3: The king did not stand for it when he heard that he ogles her. (4, 3)

4: Equips for attacks (4)

5: Support a deranged original (11)

6: Was resident hidden in wild net? (7)

7: Exchange concealed proprietary knowledge (5,6)

8: Sketch conscript (5)

13: Barque, for one, is a trio-tutor (5-6)

14: Bend in Pennsylvania court case related to revered founder (11)

17: Unstable toxin bred in hot spot (9)

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

20: We hear you will record part of a Christmas celebration (4,3)

22: A fellow's legs may be protected by these (5)

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

27: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)




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