Crossword for Mon, 23/Feb/2009

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Across
1: Stuffed 05 before a 10 (9)

5: Literary device may be fey? (5)

8: Run up a womans garment as a temporary expedient (9)

10: Soles crushed rich soil (5)

11: Polygraph unexpectedly traps vandal (3)

12: Hope destiny is remarkable - to free the mind (11)

14: Gather together for a church service. (5)

16: Attacked with words to violate one's hearing (9)

17: Plenty supporting nuclear process (9)

18: Adventurous gentleman's going west to Kentucky (5)

19: Playwright rethinking copyright wrangle (4,7)

22: Perform part of play (3)

24: Drinker taking pint from wife, perhaps (5)

25: Learning, obsessive student returns to shelf (9)

26: Posed in glossy fabric (5)

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

Down
1: Ordered hoop to conserve mass and energy (5)

2: Ideas educate to reveal that things have relaxed.(5)

3: Your leg? (5)

4: Louse can rise (3)

6: Fling an item of furniture (3,5,5)

7: Word of agreement disrupted trade at club a few hours ago (9)

9: Cook ran; ragout spilled; one might jump to conclusions here? (8,5)

10: More nutty British can promenade by the sea (7)

13: Dance, Father Morrison? (5)

14: Climbers in tumbling tailspins (9)

15: One wink, or forty (4-3)

16: 'There the woman is!' exclaimed in a less friendly way (5)

20: A garden ornament makes men go mad (5)

21: Scrabble piece having D and a diacritical mark (5)

23: Not here? No, no! (5)

25: Famous gardens said to move one to speak. (3)





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