Crossword for Sat, 23/May/2009

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Across
1: Stay in the air? But we're lost! (5)

3: Digs up former chambers containing origins of ancient temples (9)

8: Baseball team against exhibiting high principals in old Assyrian capital (7)

10: Catch first fish? Hold fast (5)

11: Headless rodent left by bird (5)

12: Whip up last cocktail slings! (9)

13: Church council regulation sounds like a big gun (5)

14: UCLA urea tests involve internationally recognized scientists (9)

16: It isnt good for a man whos batting to get a hundred in the game (9)

19: Freeze one mug filled with tea, essentially (3,2)

21: Grows wrinkled (9)

23: Content little rest for the painter (5)

24: Bury with arms and legs but no head (5)

25: Wine from Greece brought back in canisters (7)

26: A language one may read about (9)

27: First time under par for the tournament. (5)
Down
1: Coach bans macho fooling around (6,3)

2: Wild game cooking in ovens (7)

3: Upright drunk's interjection interrupts the others briefly (7)

4: Edible root on grapevine equals 200 milligrams (5)

5: National official is here, carrying identification, after challenge overwhelms local center (4-9)

6: One out of three released after misstep (7)

7: Expresses dismay with the pronounced degree of corpulence (5)

9: A date in February: good time for a massacre? (10,3)

15: Begging for one during overthrow (9)

17: Sound measure when Bec lied badly (7)

18: No saint takes strong drink as a remedy (7)

20: Fully equipped to follow it around (2,5)

21: Di returned to me in France: back for the turn of phrase. (5)

22: Circles back in reel (5)




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